Microsoft Agrees Windows 10 upgrade was pushed too aggressively

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In a video interview with Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Chris Capossela, he stated that Microsoft has been too aggressive in pushing the Windows 10 upgrade. 



Microsoft annoyed a lot of end-users by making for the upgrade notifications, and force them to upgrade to Windows 10 (GWX). The fact was that even with that application disabled, it enabled itself again. 

Capossela mentions it was rather painful for him that Microsoft ignored its own design guidelines to get users to upgrade. The upgrade dialog was changed in such a way that the red cross, normally used to close a dialog or to cancel something, now had the same effect as the OK button. This got hundreds of thousands of users to upgrade to Windows 10, because they thought they stopped the upgrade process by clicking the red cross reports myce on the video interview

“Trying not go over the line of not being too aggressive is something we tried, and for a lot of the year I think we got it right, but there was one particular moment, when the red X in the dialog box that typically means cancel didn’t mean cancel,” Capossela said.

“Within a couple of hours of that hitting the world, with the listening systems we have, we knew that we’d gone too far. And then of course it takes us some time to roll out the update that changed that behavior and those two weeks were pretty painful and clearly a lowlight for us, it learned us a lot obviously,” he added.

Microsoft received an large numbers of complaints, but instead of giving in, the company tried to explain away its design choices in a knowledge base article. When that didn’t work, the company removed the red cross to get rid of the complaints. But that made users even more angry and agitated.

Microsoft Agrees Windows 10 upgrade was pushed too aggressively


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