{"id":181607,"date":"2016-05-06T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/06\/ez-a-mechayeh\/"},"modified":"2016-05-06T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T23:56:00","slug":"ez-a-mechayeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/06\/ez-a-mechayeh\/","title":{"rendered":"Ez a Mechayeh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July, Microflaccid&#8217;s offer for a free upgrade to Windows 10 expires, and it means that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3067117\/windows\/microsoft-says-it-will-stop-pestering-users-to-get-windows-10-in-july.html\"> those f%$#ing pop up windows will be going away<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">There was one issue that went unspoken in Microsoft\u2019s announcement on Thursday that the free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3066657\/windows\/windows-10-adoption-hits-300-million-as-microsoft-warns-the-free-upgrade-will-end-soon.html\">Windows 10 upgrade offer would end<\/a> on July 29. What would the company do about all those annoying, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3014238\/windows\/get-windows-10-prompt-adopts-malware-like-tactics-to-trick-you-into-upgrading.html\">almost malware-like<\/a>, pop-up notifications to upgrade to Windows 10 that appeared on the PCs of Windows 7 and 8.1 users? The answer is they will disappear. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cDetails are still being finalized, but on July 29th the Get Windows 10 app&#8230;will be disabled and eventually removed from PCs worldwide,\u201d Microsoft told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winbeta.org\/news\/get-windows-10-app-will-removed-windows-78-1-july-29th-free-offer-ends\">WinBeta<\/a> in a written statement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 110%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Hallelujah<\/span><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The company warned that it may take some time to disable the upgrade pop-ups on computers worldwide. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hallelujah is right.<\/p>\n<p>I am sick to death of Microsoft&#8217;s nags to install its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/2956574\/microsoft-subnet\/windows-10-privacy-spyware-settings-user-agreement.html\">f%$#ing spyware<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">It&#8217;s Yiddish, &#8220;\u05d0\u05d9\u05d6 \u05d0\u05b7 \u05de\u05d7\u05d9\u05d4,&#8221; and it means that it is a great joy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July, Microflaccid&#8217;s offer for a free upgrade to Windows 10 expires, and it means that those f%$#ing pop up windows will be going away: There was one issue that went unspoken in Microsoft\u2019s announcement on Thursday that the free Windows 10 upgrade offer would end on July 29. What would the company do about &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,969,1160,989],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-evil","category-marketing","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}