After spending the better part of a year aggressively pushing consumers to improve tocheap windows 10 home, Microsoft is finally taking a step back with the acknowledgment it went too far.

Customers have endured unwanted downloading of the software onto their PC without being told, then unwanted upgrades. And finally, the Get Windows ten (GWX) application was changed so in case you clicked the red "X" at the corner of the window thinking it would opt out, Microsoft treated this click as being a confirmation of a scheduled update.

The outcry has been very loud, and it recently cost Microsoft $10,000 from the form of a court loss over one small business user's forced upgrade that left her do the job PC unusable.

That lawsuit may be what broke the camel's back. Microsoft's executive vice president in charge of the Home windows group, Terry Myerson, issued the following statement to your media:

"We started our journey withcheap windows 10 enterprisewith a clear goal to move people from needing Windows to choosing Home windows to loving Windows. Towards this goal, this week we'll launch a new enhance experience for millions of PCs around the world. The new experience has clearer options to up grade now, choose a time, or decline the free of charge offer. If the red-x is selected on this new dialog, it will dismiss the dialog box, and we will notify the device again in a few days. We'd like our customers to enhance and improve their experience with Home windows and Microsoft."

Microsoft's media relations also provided a new dialog box that shows the option "decline absolutely free offer."

While it's good that Microsoft finally admitted its mistake, it's ridiculous that things went this far. These were not actions of individuals acting out of turn. The GWX modifications had to generally be approved from on high and manufactured by the dev team. It was done up and down the chain of command. Did no one at any point say "this is wrong?"

I can understand Microsoft's desire to avoid another Home windows XP situation. And due to the fact of the way it acted, coupled with people's concerns overcheap windows 8 professionalspying, they pretty much insured it will. I get around message boards. There are now a lot of Home windows seven end users chanting "hell no we won't go" right after the events of the past year. They may not be in large numbers, but they pretty much guarantee that Home windows 7 will be around for a while-long following its 2020 expiration date.