Windows 10's pushy upgrade tactics pay off with share growth

Microsoft's recent campaign to force-feed the Windows 10 upgrade to older PCs appears to have been successful, generating a short but sustained increase in usage, according to a pair of data sources.

Last week, users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 systems began reporting that the automatically-downloaded Windows 10 upgrade had been installed, with an accompanying glut of complaints that they had not had the opportunity to decline the offer, or if they did see a way to reject 10, were stuck in a loop where the demand endlessly reappeared.

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