As you can see from the screenshot above, the final Windows 10 upgrade reminder is a full-screen one.
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Windows users can choose to upgrade straight away, be reminded later, receive three more notifications, or never see the prompt again.
The free Windows 10 upgrade offer ends on July 29, after which you’ll be charged £99/€135/$119 for Windows 10 Home or £190 for Windows 10 Pro.
If Microsoft’s pop ups forcing you to upgrade to Windows 10 were not annoying enough, then this new full page reminder will really get on your nerves.
If your organization is now running App-V or UE-V on Windows 10 Professional or earlier and plan to upgrade to the Windows 10 Anniversary release, you will need to deploy the Enterprise edition to use App-V and UE-V on those devices. Those upgrade prompts are now going full-screen to make sure you can’t ignore them. Unofficially, Microsoft is in a hurry because it knows that the moment the free gravy runs out, people are less likely to upgrade to Windows 10 anymore until the very last moment. “Upgrade your PC before the offer ends!” It comes through a full-screen pop-up message that could well irritate those who have chosen to give the new system a miss. However, Microsoft has continued to warn users that foregoing the upgrade would result in inconveniences in the future.
A company known for their software and OS domination, Microsoft has slowly been moving towards the hardware devices over the recent years. The payout is among the most visible examples of customer complaints that Microsoft was too aggressive in its push to get people to use the new software.
Of course, the vast majority of new users on Windows 10 after 29 July will get the operating system when they purchase their next computer off a store shelf or from an OEMs website.
Teri Goldstein, of Sausalito, in the San Francisco Bay area, alleged her computer began attempting to download Windows 10 soon after Microsoft released it as a free upgrade in July of a year ago.
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There are steps you can take to improve your privacy in Windows 10. Anyone who selects the “notify me three more times” option will, well, get what they asked for. Judging by the campaigns so far, it’s unlikely that Microsoft will stop aggressively promoting Windows 10 even if it will no longer be free after this month.
