Microsoft hits a new low with Windows 10 upgrade con

Microsoft is getting increasingly desperate to get users onto Windows 10. While there is no doubt that Windows 10 is a great OS in itself (ad-ware and privacy issues notwithstanding) and you really should upgrade if you can, forcing people’s hand by conning them is a really low and dirty means of going about it. First, Microsoft started pestering users to upgrade. Then, they started downloading the entire Windows 10 ISO file and telling people to upgrade. If that wasn’t bad enough, they started disguising the Windows 10 upgrade app as a security program and pushing it as a recommended upgrade and even within Internet Explorer . If you thought those tricks were dirty, Microsoft’s latest con is the lowest and dirtiest of them all. You know that big, red X button on the top, right corner of every window that you open? It’s the one you click to dismiss a window when you’re done with it. Microsoft, in all its sneaky wisdom decided that if you close the Windows 10 upgrade pop-up, you will have explicitly approved the Windows 10 upgrade. They go so far as to not even mention this within the pop-up window and hide this information in the documentation related to the window. As it stands, the only way to opt-out of the upgrade is if you explicitly cancel it by carefully going through the provided instructions on the Windows 10 upgrade window and opting out. Just hitting X might one day find you waking up to a brand new, but possibly unwanted version of Windows running on your PC. Come on, Microsoft! Did you really have to stoop so low?