{"id":166176,"date":"2016-05-25T14:29:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T12:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=166176"},"modified":"2016-05-25T14:31:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T12:31:16","slug":"microsoft-tricks-users-into-upgrading-to-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/166176-microsoft-tricks-users-into-upgrading-to-windows-10.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft &#8220;tricks&#8221; users into upgrading to Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has been accused of changing the\u00a0pop-up box asking\u00a0Windows users to upgrade to Windows 10 to schedule the upgrade if the red &#8220;close&#8221; cross is clicked.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-36367221\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/a>, clicking on the cross button on the pop-up window results in the upgrade being scheduled instead of the prompt\u00a0being dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>The publication quoted industry experts as calling this a &#8220;dirty trick&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The upgrade could still be cancelled when the scheduled time for it to begin appeared, said Microsoft in response to complaints.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the free Windows 10 upgrade offer ending on 29 July, we want to help people upgrade to the best version of Windows,&#8221; said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Windows-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-166178 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Windows-10.jpg\" alt=\"Windows 10\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Windows-10.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Windows-10-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Windows<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/166064-windows-phone-another-nail-in-the-coffin.html\">Windows Phone \u2013 another nail in the coffin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/166042-windows-10-ram-requirements-increased.html\">Windows 10 RAM requirements increased<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has been accused of changing the pop-up box asking Windows users to upgrade to Windows 10 to schedule the upgrade if the red &#8220;close&#8221; cross is clicked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":127880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,123,26970],"class_list":["post-166176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166182,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166176\/revisions\/166182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}