Microsoft antagonizes users with intrusive new Windows 10 upgrade tactics

Microsoft has gone aggressive -- far too aggressive, say some -- in its push to get users onto Windows 10, including setting the upgrade to automatically download through Windows Update, and on some PCs, blocking all other updates from installing and offering only the choice of upgrading to the new OS or delaying the deal for 48 hours.

Perhaps coincidentally, the latest stratagems coincided with a noticeable increase in Windows 10's usage share, a measure of an operating system's online activity, as tracked by Irish analytics vendor StatCounter.

Microsoft has acknowledged one of the ways it's been plugging Windows 10, but said it was a mistake and backed off the ploy.

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