>However, even if someone correctly claimed that they were forced to upgrade and didn't, along the way, accept the Windows 10 terms and conditions, it was dead easy to roll back to the previous OS. Far easier, in fact, than coping with a ransomware attack.
From who's perspective? Microsoft? This was already fixed, just that people didn't update, because like I said, people just disabled updates. That trust was broken by Microsoft. Even if you are doubtful of 'forced upgrades', you can research for all the evidence yourself. I've had it happen to plenty of machines, and the free utilities, like I said, were negated multiple times as Microsoft kept changing how their win10 update service could be blocked. Sure, there were months where it would be perfectly stable, but if you needed to be sure, you turned off windows update.
> Even if you are doubtful of 'forced upgrades', you can research for all the evidence yourself.
The fact that people claim -- or journalists report -- forced updates doesn't make their claims true. Everybody who deals with real users knows how unaware they are.
Having said that, I agree that the "dark patterns" were a really bad idea. Microsoft actually does know how unaware real users are, and its upgrade offers should have reflected that.
Whether it was worth turning off security updates is another matter, and would depend on the circumstances. For most users, my opinion is that it was stupid.
From who's perspective? Microsoft? This was already fixed, just that people didn't update, because like I said, people just disabled updates. That trust was broken by Microsoft. Even if you are doubtful of 'forced upgrades', you can research for all the evidence yourself. I've had it happen to plenty of machines, and the free utilities, like I said, were negated multiple times as Microsoft kept changing how their win10 update service could be blocked. Sure, there were months where it would be perfectly stable, but if you needed to be sure, you turned off windows update.