Microsoft embarrasses itself with Windows 10 pop-up that hogs the desktop urging an upgrade to Windows 11 then promptly crashes

Date:
Mon, 06 Jan 2025 12:45:37 +0000

Description:
Windows 10 users, start planning for Windows 11 now by watching Microsofts pop-up pushing an upgrade crash.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Microsof t has pushed out another pop-up urging Windows 10 users to upgrade In this case, though, there are reports of the pop-up locking up Its not a good look having a full-screen nag crash, especially given all the problems with bugs
in Windows 11 24H2 right now

In a rather embarrassing turn of events for Microsoft, its latest bid to urge Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 has gone awry because the pop-up in question crashes.

This is a full-screen pop-up, of which weve seen very similar (if not identical) variants before, which urges you to Start planning for Windows 10 end of support ahead of the End of Life date for the OS which is October 2025 .

Its a multi-panel nag to upgrade to Windows 11 (if you proceed to click through it all), and rather in-your-face as it takes up the entire desktop (usually following a cumulative update for Windows 10).

The fresh wrinkle here, though, as Windows Latest reports, is that this
pop-up is crashing for some Windows 10 users, as flagged up by a denizen of X (@ems_konto). >application pops up to tell me to upgrade to windows 11>immediately crashesthanks microsoft pic.twitter.com/DuEQSVCk24 December
31, 2024

So, what we have here is a message urging you to start planning what youll do when Windows 10 support runs out, telling you to prepare now, and that the Windows Backup app can help you transfer all your files to a new Windows 11 PC.

And then the pop-up window immediately freezes, becomes unresponsive, and informs the user that Reusable UX Interaction Manager is not working whoops. (Image credit: Shutterstock) Analysis: An unfortunate error to say the least

This is rather unfortunate because Microsoft is pushing folks to plan ahead
in good time and upgrade to Windows 11 one way or another (it hopes), and the very piece of code doing this then crashes which, the more cynical might suggest, could be read as a flavor of whats to come if you do go ahead and upgrade. Given all the bugs that have been plaguing Windows 11 24H2 of late, certainly ( particularly those hitting PC gamers ).

Granted, this is code within Windows 10 crashing its nothing to do with Windows 11 but the impression thats made by a Microsoft program urging you
to upgrade to Windows 11 and then locking up completely is obviously not a good one.

We havent ever encountered a nag screen crashing in the many years weve been using Windows since Microsoft first implemented these kind of nudges, which have become increasingly bigger shoves to upgrade so this is a first as far as were aware. And presumably something Microsoft will be keen to fix
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