Microsoft annoys its Chinese users with Windows 10 upgrades

Windows users in China are criticizing the software behemothic for forcibly making them upgrade to Windows 10. Users accept made over ane.2 meg posts lament nigh the operating system on the Chinese microblog site Weibo.

Microsoft hurts its Chinese users with Windows 10 upgrade tricks

Microsoft is facing criticism from its Chinese users of Windows operating system every bit the company has forced people into upgrading to its latest Windows 10 Os. The official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday, that over 1.ii million posts critical of Microsoft's ways of pushing Windows 10 accept appeared on Weibo. Zhao Zhanling, a legal advisor with the Internet Lodge of Prc said that users or consumer protection organizations accept the right to file lawsuits against the company since it did not respect users' correct to choose when they want to install updates on their PCs, and may have profited from these unwanted upgrades.

"The company has abused its dominant market position and broken the marketplace guild for fair play," Zhanling.

Yang Shuo, who works at a Beijing-based PR firm, posted that the forced Windows ten update interrupted him while he was working on an of import business plan. The unwanted upgrade procedure led him to carelessness the document after which he had to cancel a deal worth 3m yuan ($457,735).

Microsoft is yet to reply to these complaints that have appeared on Weibo, but it has posted on the Chinese microblog, sharing information almost how to revert back to older versions of Windows. Users have long requested that along with an option to upgrade later, Windows 10 upgrade popular-ups should besides offer a turn down option.

These complaints in China follow the recent changes that Microsoft made to its Windows 10 upgrade pop-up on older Windows versions. The visitor started the upgrade process when users clicked on the Ten (close) sign to cease the update. Before this, clicking the Ten would terminate the popular-upwardly from taking whatever farther action. After a widespread backlash from users and the IT community, Microsoft added another pop-up confirming that the user was about to install Windows 10. Nevertheless, many remain skeptic of Microsoft's "nasty" and "deceitful" tricks, making users unknowingly upgrade to Windows 10.