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Microsoft is sorry it forced that Windows 10 update down your throat

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How cool is it that Windows 10 is available as a free update to all Windows 7 and Windows 8 customers? Very cool if you love Microsoft and Windows. Very cool, if you want to install it on your machine. Very cool, if you’re willing to ignore the privacy caveats and some of the initial performance issues.

But not so cool if Microsoft forces it on your machine, which is exactly what happened recently.

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Microsoft is sorry it forced that Windows 10 update down your throat

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How cool is it that Windows 10 is available as a free update to all Windows 7 and Windows 8 customers? Very cool if you love Microsoft and Windows. Very cool, if you want to install it on your machine. Very cool, if you’re willing to ignore the privacy caveats and some of the initial performance issues.

But not so cool if Microsoft forces it on your machine, which is exactly what happened recently.

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Microsoft is sorry it forced that Windows 10 update down your throat

%name Articles of Interest by Authcom, Nova Scotia\s Internet and Computing Solutions Provider in Kentville, Annapolis Valley

How cool is it that Windows 10 is available as a free update to all Windows 7 and Windows 8 customers? Very cool if you love Microsoft and Windows. Very cool, if you want to install it on your machine. Very cool, if you’re willing to ignore the privacy caveats and some of the initial performance issues.

But not so cool if Microsoft forces it on your machine, which is exactly what happened recently.

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AT&T CEO apologizes for awesomely bad response to longtime customer

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AT&T just can’t seem to get out of its own way sometimes. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has apologized for an awesomely bad response to a longtime customer that began when Stephenson forwarded the customer’s email to AT&T’s legal department. As The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this week, AT&T customer Alfred Valrie sent Stephenson a letter that politely made suggestions for improving the company’s service. Stephenson forwarded the email to the carrier’s legal team, which sent Valerie back a rather terse response.

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AT&T CEO apologizes for awesomely bad response to longtime customer

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AT&T just can’t seem to get out of its own way sometimes. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has apologized for an awesomely bad response to a longtime customer that began when Stephenson forwarded the customer’s email to AT&T’s legal department. As The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this week, AT&T customer Alfred Valrie sent Stephenson a letter that politely made suggestions for improving the company’s service. Stephenson forwarded the email to the carrier’s legal team, which sent Valerie back a rather terse response.

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Sprint to start throttling some unlimited data users – here are the details

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Sprint is following T-Mobile’s lead again, but not in a way that will make some unlimited data users happy. Sprint CTO John Saw announced on Friday that the carrier is going to start throttling some unlimited data users during periods of network congestion if they’ve already gone over 23GB of data in a given monthly period.

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Report says ‘Chipgate’ may have cost Samsung Apple’s iPhone 7 business

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Whenever Apple comes out to defend a potential flaw that has a “-gate” suffix — think Antennagate (iPhone 4), Bendgate (iPhone 6) or Batterygate / Chipgate (iPhone 6s) — it probably means that, yes, there’s a problem. Apple’s confirmation of the issue usually sounds reassuring, which suggests the company is working on a fix if it hasn’t already found one, which was certainly true for Antennagate and Bendgate. With Chipgate, Apple might have fixes in the works, including one that it will likely enjoy enacting: Apparently, Samsung might lose the A10 chip business to TSMC, which could be Apple’s way of preventing potential chip-related issues next year.

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High-quality BlackBerry Priv hands-on video emerges

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The remaining BlackBerry diehards don’t have a new BlackBerry 10 flagship phone to get excited for this year. Instead, they have the BlackBerry Priv, the world’s first BlackBerry Android phone that promises to bring the company’s first-rate mobile security to the Wild West of Google’s mobile operating system. And on Friday, U.K. retailer Carphone Warehouse posted a short hands-on video of the Priv that shows off some of its key features.

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