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“Get Windows 10” GXW Notification Acquiring More and More User Displeasure


The Internet has recently found much outrage over the non-chargeable upgrade to Windows 10 proposal by Microsoft. From apparently unsolicited installs to worrisome prompts, the widespread hate for Windows 10 now is at fever pitch while a few individuals are even imbibing the responsibility towards beginning investigations and petitions vis-à-vis Microsoft.

The reason why Microsoft's most recent operating system hate is brewing even as it has acquired a bad rapport can be explained via peeping into a 5-months back situation when Computerworld delineated Microsoft's measures for spreading Windows 10, however, observed it hadn't still navigated to the succeeding reasonable stage i.e. not just taking down and installing Windows 10, nevertheless completing it devoid of overt user approval.

Recapitulating the story, Microsoft kick started its radical dissemination plan during January 2015 the time the company's executives declared the one-year free availability of Windows 10 revised from the preceding Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 following Windows 10's formal launch.

Like it happens with every fresh software release, there were yet again a few users who'd got accustomed to and become comfortable with earlier versions, in particular, Windows 7. Several users from that select population felt deeply irritating when the recommendation dialogs "Get Windows 10" kept popping up.

After small irks, the GXW recommendations are now a meme. Within a particular instance, in Iowa when weather forecast was being broadcast live, the GXW reminder appeared to interrupt via a hilarious substitution of the climate map colored green by one blown up of Windows edition. In.techradar.com posted this dated June 11, 2016.

In July, Microsoft's promotional campaign for free Windows 10 upgrade is expected to conclude, with the company wholly clearing end-users' PCs off the GXW (Get Windows 10) application. The app should be pulling down the required files for beginning the fresh OS' installer, while also examining if compatibility problems are addressed which maybe there on any Windows 8.1 or windows 7 computer.

For people continuing to use either Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 have the time till July 29 this year to move upwards to Windows 10 at no additional monetary cost.

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