[Mithaldu]

You have a good point.

And to be fair, the misreporting and misrepresentation of the reality in the discourse about windows upgrades caused my pendulum to swing too far in the other direction.

MS is engaging in dark patterns, and that is what needs to be stated clearly, and directly, not the sensationalist, and wrong "windows updated automatically and there was nothing i could do".

> having the close button _agree_ to the changes rather than canceling them.

See that kind of thing is wrong. No such thing happens, period. The window tells you that at the date a change was scheduled, and gives you the options of "change", "cancel", "do now" or "dismiss the information". Closing it does not agree to anything, the agreement was taken implicitly before the window even opened. You're opted in, and given an option to opt out. And that is the dark pattern here.

[sundvor]

> You're opted in, and given an option to opt out. And that is the dark pattern here.

Bingo, nailed it.

[sundvor]

Just came across how you get "signed up" for the upgrade - see the main screenshot here:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3078663/windows/microsoft-den...

That's definitely a textbook case of a dark pattern.

[Mithaldu]

I believe the screenshot is what you get when you did not cancel the scheduled upgrade and the process starts in earnest.

Note the very nice video in there.