[spencera]

"I spent most of the night trying to replicate this behavior -- a blue banner on new tabs in IE11 with "Microsoft recommends upgrading to Windows 10" -- and couldn't get it to trigger. If you can, I'd appreciate your shooting an email with a screenshot to [e-mail]."

[krapp]

weird, I just opened IE up and got it immediately:

https://imgur.com/o69rzTG

[technion]

I get that same ad on a Windows 2012 R2 RDS server. It's interesting having a user in a remote desktop environment log a ticket about a required upgrade to Windows 10.