Where was the acceptance of a contract requiring that? Microsoft just gave people a free upgrade.
PittleyDunkin 36 minutes ago |
I imagine the definition of "upgrade" depends on the needs of the customer. The merchant of the license is inherently unable to evaluate this. Installing software without explicit consent, especially not-functionally-equivalent-software, is inherently wrong.
causality0 5 minutes ago |
It's amazing to me that we're all so chill about a company in Redmond having root access to our PCs because they pinky-swear they will never misuse it.
ranger_danger 3 minutes ago |
And yet when you call it what it is (a backdoor) people get highly offended. Same thing with ubuntu snaps or really anything that updates automatically.
ahoka 3 hours ago |
“installs itself” = a 3rd party patch management product installed the update
heraldgeezer 2 hours ago |
Or if you auto approve security updates. As is common. Azure VMs even default to auto-update pulls from MS.