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I have already spent several hours this week on the university student IT helpdesk fixing laptops broken by this Windows 10 update.

Every single person said they hadn't chosen to update - clearly it was a result of this popup. Most of the failures were broken drivers that prevented Windows from even booting. It particularly annoys me that Windows 10 tries to install itself on completely incompatible hardware.

A nasty dark pattern.



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