{"id":166706,"date":"2016-05-30T09:19:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T07:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=166706"},"modified":"2016-05-30T09:21:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T07:21:45","slug":"massive-backlash-against-windows-10-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/166706-massive-backlash-against-windows-10-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Massive backlash against Windows 10 update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese users of Microsoft&#8217;s software have voiced their opposition to the company&#8217;s push to get them to upgrade to Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/05\/28\/china-microsoft-windows-10-upgrade\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Fortune<\/strong><\/a>, the Chinese site Weibo has over 1.2 million complaints on it about the Windows 10 upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company has abused its dominant market position and broken the market order for fair play,\u201d said\u00a0Zhao Zhanling, a legal adviser with the Internet Society of China.<\/p>\n<p>The posts come after\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/166176-microsoft-tricks-users-into-upgrading-to-windows-10.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Microsoft was accused<\/strong><\/a> of changing its\u00a0pop-up box asking\u00a0Windows users to upgrade to Windows 10 to schedule the upgrade if the red \u201cclose\u201d cross was clicked.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Disabling of critical updates<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3075729\/windows\/fearing-forced-windows-10-upgrades-users-are-disabling-critical-updates-at-their-own-risk.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PC World<\/strong><\/a> recently reported that Windows 7 and 8 users have disabled critical updates in their operating systems in a bid to avoid downloading the Windows 10 update.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that this can leave a user&#8217;s PC open to attack, as security updates and other patches are not delivered as a consequence.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Windows 10<\/h3>\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<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/164812-microsoft-removes-windows-10-wi-fi-sense.html\">Microsoft removes Windows 10 Wi-Fi Sense<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese users of Microsoft&#8217;s software have voiced their opposition to the company&#8217;s push to get them to upgrade to Windows 10.<\/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":[36,26970],"class_list":["post-166706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166706"}],"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=166706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166708,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166706\/revisions\/166708"}],"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=166706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}