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Regardless of people not reading dialog boxes, a major update of Windows can take a long time and be very disruptive. When it's done, things may look and feel
by exodust 10y ago
Regardless of people not reading dialog boxes, a major update of Windows can take a long time and be very disruptive. When it's done, things may look and feel unfamiliar and applications may not work.
Such a significant change should not come about automatically by way of simply closing a dialog box.
There should at least be one final dialog box requiring confirmation: "go ahead with Windows 10 update now? Yes/No" and if that dialog box has an X close button, it should be wired up to "no".
If user clicks "yes", it would be polite to double check with "this update could take awhile, are you sure?" and supply links to a checklist of things people might want to know ahead of updating.
This is undoubtedly a deceptive and aggressive UI pattern by Microsoft for their own product agenda, and the bad press is deserved.