Microsoft halts full-screen Windows 11 upgrade alerts amid user backlash
After facing widespread backlash from users, Microsoft decided to pause its plan to roll out full-screen Windows 11 upgrade alerts to more Windows 10 users starting in April 2024. Initially, these alerts were tested with a select group of Windows 10 users, primarily those with Home Licenses, which appeared as full-screen popups, often after a system reboot, promoting the benefits of upgrading to Windows 11.
The decision to pause was quietly confirmed in an update to the Microsoft 365 advisory, which noted that the April 2024 security update will no longer include these upgrade invitations. The pause impacts non-managed Windows 10 PCs that rely on Microsoft for updates, including Pro, Pro Workstation, and domain-joined devices not overseen by IT departments. Managed devices, which are controlled by tools like Microsoft Intune, Configuration Manager, Windows Autopatch, and WSUS, are not affected.
These alerts, essentially advertisements, were intended to encourage users to upgrade to Windows 11, with Windows 10's retirement date just over a year away, suggesting that Microsoft may need to resume the upgrade notifications soon.
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Well - waiting for 2025 to say goodbye to Win10 and that will be it for me and M$
This does not surprised me at all. Microsoft being Micr$oft. What could be next?
Sailing on Windows 10 Entreprise 2021, I am so happy to not be annoyed like regular users. Imagine paying for Windows.
Microsoft must have a whole department dedicated to annoying people. Oh, you're trying to get some work done? How about a cool Windows tip, or hey check out this picture you took four months ago, or how about upgrading to one of Microsoft's four awesome subscriptions, or hey are you SURE you don't want to send extra data to Microsoft? (Yes or Yes)
Codenamed: the Microtroll$ ...annoying the life outta ya a bit every day
Microsoft thinks that Windows 11 is some kind of ad-supported entertainment and media centre, when businesses and power users like me use them for actual work and not just messing around. No wonder Windows 11 is struggle to gain market share and may only do so under pressure from the upcoming end of support for Windows 10 next year October as well as the current cybersecurity climate where updates to any software (regardless of platform) are critical to keep users safe.
Just let me correct you at "thinks"... more like hogs whatever revenue they can... or can't...
Knowing M$, Winblows 11 will probably just start installing itself without permission from the user.... wiping their personal data in the process.
Not before backing up all to data to OneDrive and then require the user to pay for it every month. Since security is becoming the first priority for Microsoft (as they said), they're certainly seeing users as too lazy for securing their own computers, so Microsoft have to take even more control. Even me, I am too lazy to remember the last thing Microsoft have done right. Was it this century or the last one?
I'd say they got Windows 7 right... more or less. But it's all been downhill since then.