I actually rather like Windows 10.
Not so much that I want to give up OS X and install Microsoft’s latest and shiniest on my Mac instead, you understand.
But enough that I would leave behind Windows 7 faster than you can say “XP is a
dead parrot” if I were offered a free upgrade.
Of course, if I were a Windows 7 user, the chances are that I would have already been offered a free upgrade, possibly several times.
And that’s been a sore point with many Windows users in recent months.
We’ve had reports of Windows 10 upgrade offers popping up in the middle of
weather forecasts and live
gaming streams.
To be fair to Microsoft, any TV company that relies on full-screen Windows apps to generate live footage really ought to know about
presentation mode, as should any presenters who have ever suffered the embarrassment of company email alerts or personal instant messages showing up during demos to a live audience.
A live-on-stage Windows 10 upgrade alert is amusing, but an email subject line that names a colleague or a mentions a customer is a self-documenting data breach.
For a while, the Windows 10 upgrade was categorised as a
recommended update, and pushed out in upgrade-as-an-update form:
