Just remember when you think about buying a scorpio... this is the type of thing MS does when it is a dominant market position.

Exactly. Most Xbox fans won't bat an eye about this. I do however. The way they handled RROD was a huge factor in my decision to never support them again. Although......I still do use Windows, partially because there are so few options, and I'm familiar with it. 

-edit. I should say most consumers won't bat an eye when things like this happen. Even for serious shit, like the Subway poison bread fiasco from 2014. It got an almost unbelievable low amount of coverage. "Azodicarbonamide is the same chemical used to make yoga mats, shoe soles, and other rubbery objects. It’s not supposed to be food or even eaten for that matter." Yet Subway seem to be doing fine. I don't know wtf happened to the text. Ha!

I use windows 7.... down with the system! Turns on Rage against the machine and head bangs for half an hour....................................... I am 30! 

But seriously windows 7 is the best one, no crap just down to business. 

It's a shame there weren't more episodes.

LOL!  Pretty much, that would have been orders of magnitude worse.  Could you imagine.... 

That Chinese business man sounds like he has an American lawyer!

Oh wow I missed buying $5mill in Life Ins on my neighbor, then he died before I could complete my transaction due to the update!!! Were is my Money MSFT

Reading the article from Fortune... it was set up so you could avoid the update by pressing X but they changed that so that if you pressed X it means you accepted the update and then it can auto update without even getting your approval (obviously the worst part).

You said "massive" backlash and then said 1.2 million Chinese. That's like 2 people.

Also Chinese business man is doing a business plan for a big deal on the same day the deal is due? What kind of shitty employee is he? I thought blaming big corporations for your own incompetence was an American thing.

I don't think it's that simple. Linux is a great platform and I've used it in the past. However to set it up and get it functioning at the same ease of use as Windows I had to get my brother to come and do all sorts of tweaks that only someone who has spent a long time learning about the nuts and bolts of Linux could do. So at least in terms of my last experience with it it is not a pick up and play OS, which immediately excludes a majority of PC users. And for people who can;t afford a Mac, or don't want to pay the excessive prices Apple charges for its cool factor, your only option is Windows. If Linux advocates want to increase the uptake of Linux they need to work on making it more accessible to the plebs and techno-philistines (like me) who make up the largest segment of PC users. And there are some games I want to play that are only on Windows PC, which makes it my second gaming platform.

OT, I noticed that after closing the update offer window for the 100th time that all of a sudden I actually had an upgrade scheduled to happen in a couple of days time. I was able to cancel the upgrade (so at least MS did give me an out,  but only because I was observant enough to notice), but I thought I had accidentally hit the yes button before hitting the x button. I'm pretty annoyed to find out MS was being sneaky with that change to the x button. 

MS should be forced to put in a new option for it's upgrade pop up "I don't want to upgrade and don't ask me again."

They made this an automatic update with my friends small business PC running an accounting package. They are a Real Estate business. Their accounting package is 4 years old. The Windows "update" killed the accounting package. They were in a panic. I called the accounting package support line and they confirmed their version was not compatible with Win 10. An upgraded accounting package would cost $900. The accounting software company were not aware that this automatic "update" by MS was now in effect. They were as surprised as me.

So my friend didn't have the $900 to upgrade and therefore I Rolled back their PC to Win7. Problem solved.

So I have to ask, MS - since when is a Windows update the same thing as an entire Operating System upgrade? Ridiculous. How can such an "upgrade" be set to automatic? This policy by MS is obviously not entirely up front. It was fortunate the rollback to Win 7 works well.

After the rollback, the form appears to ask why I rolled back. Yeah well, when Win 10 breaks a critical app that really isn't that old and the "update" was surreptitiously enforced, the answer is not going to be exactly glowing. This whole thing reeks of just how disconnected MS is from its userbase. It's pretty arrogant. I would have thought MS learned from the XBox One reveal. Possibly the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.