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06-28-2016, 11:08 PM
Microsoft broke an age-old rule with ******* 10 updates and paid the price
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******* 10 is one the smartest, most consistent and well-thought-out ******* updates in a decade and it pains me to see people rejecting an operating system that would likely improve their digital lives.
But there's also a thing called free will and people have a right to just say **. And when they do that, you have to accept their decision and move on. Eventually, people usually make the right call or realize that holding onto aging tech**logy is actually hurting them in other ways.
SEE ALSO: 7 useful tips that every ******* 10 user should k**w (http://mashable.com/2016/06/23/7-*******-10-tips/)
There's ** question Microsoft (http://mashable.com/category/microsoft/) wants everyone*to upgrade to ******* 10 (http://mashable.com/category/*******-10/) — it hopes to have a billion (http://www.pcworld.com/article/3049484/*******/microsoft-boasts-of-rapid-*******-10-adoption-to-more-than-270-million-computers.html) installs by 2018. That's why they made it so easy, offering free upgrades to all ******* 7 and 8.1 users. (Those upgrades cease to be free, by the way, on July 29 (http://mashable.com/2016/05/05/*******-10-300-million-devices/).) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/28/*******-10-upgrade-snafu-analysis/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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******* 10 is one the smartest, most consistent and well-thought-out ******* updates in a decade and it pains me to see people rejecting an operating system that would likely improve their digital lives.
But there's also a thing called free will and people have a right to just say **. And when they do that, you have to accept their decision and move on. Eventually, people usually make the right call or realize that holding onto aging tech**logy is actually hurting them in other ways.
SEE ALSO: 7 useful tips that every ******* 10 user should k**w (http://mashable.com/2016/06/23/7-*******-10-tips/)
There's ** question Microsoft (http://mashable.com/category/microsoft/) wants everyone*to upgrade to ******* 10 (http://mashable.com/category/*******-10/) — it hopes to have a billion (http://www.pcworld.com/article/3049484/*******/microsoft-boasts-of-rapid-*******-10-adoption-to-more-than-270-million-computers.html) installs by 2018. That's why they made it so easy, offering free upgrades to all ******* 7 and 8.1 users. (Those upgrades cease to be free, by the way, on July 29 (http://mashable.com/2016/05/05/*******-10-300-million-devices/).) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/28/*******-10-upgrade-snafu-analysis/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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