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Life is hard when you have 1.5 billion users, especially when a lot of them resist attempts to modernise or even update the system. That's true, but it's proba
by Silhouette 10y ago
Life is hard when you have 1.5 billion users, especially when a lot of them resist attempts to modernise or even update the system.
That's true, but it's probably a lot harder when you've proven to be untrustworthy in what you include under "modernisation" or "updates".
Plenty of techie people warned that user-hostile behaviour like the GWX campaign or including non-security things in updates advertised as security patches would damage that trust and come back to bite them later. I think a lot of people didn't really believe that would be the case at the time, but as the article here notes, the adoption rates suggest otherwise.
- seanp2k2 10y agoNot to mention all the dark patterns around pushing the Win10 "upgrade" in the first place.
- Silhouette 10y agoYes. (GWX = common shorthand for those "Get Windows 10" updates.)
- scholia 10y agoTrue. They pushed their luck, and got more than 400 million users onto a new OS. Not only that, it's a much better OS. The only people who actually suffered were the OEMs, who didn't get to sell new PCs to all those people whose old PCs got a new lease of life.
- Silhouette 10y agoI'm pretty sure all the people who were complaining about being tricked into upgrading don't agree with you.
- scholia 10y agoI'm pretty sure that was a small minority of more than 400 million users. It didn't happen on any of my Windows PCs, nor to anyone I know personally.