Microsoft backs off click-the-X trick in Windows 10 upgrade pitch

Microsoft today said it will revamp the notification of a pending Windows 10 upgrade so that clicking the red "X" -- an action that for decades has been used to dismiss or ignore a dialog box -- will no longer be interpreted as authorizing the process.

With just a month to go before it stops offering a free upgrade to consumers and many businesses running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, Microsoft said it would modify the notice that appears when the company pitches the Windows 10 upgrade.

"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," Terry Myerson, who heads Microsoft's Windows and devices group, said in a statement.

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