Unexpected pop up

[chibaka]

Click on it.

If I have to click on it to open it, it's not a pop up.

You are right. OP, please go back and edit your opening post for semantic infidelity.

I wasn't being pedantic. I was wondering if other people were actually being interrupted by an annoying pop up.

Suddenly a message icon appeared on the toolbar of my win 7 laptop, looks like Microshaft are keeping their word...
When I clicked..

I think my post was clear enough. If not, my humblest apologies go out to the English language overlords...

FYI, another win 7 pc of mine doesn't have the icon, updates are blocked

[wagyl]

I'm probably going to test it on my surface first...the thing is made by microsoft so with any luck at least all the drivers and such should function for their own hardware.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/16 ... ws_tablet/ URL may be misleading.

Edited to add: when the OMG lists of ten best new features all point to ways that Win10 has addressed issues people had with Win8, I am not compelled to make the break from Win7. I would be a fool not to reconsider in June 2016, but I think I would also be a fool to jump in in July 2015.

Why, yes, I was an XP holdout. How did you guess?

[Mike Oxlong]

US Navy paid millions to stay on Windows XP

The U.S. Navy is paying Microsoft millions of dollars to keep up to 100,000 computers afloat because it has yet to transition away from Windows XP.

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, which runs the Navy's communications and information networks, signed a $9.1 million contract earlier this month for continued access to security patches for Windows XP, Office 2003, Exchange 2003 and Windows Server 2003.

The entire contract could be worth up to $30.8 million and extend into 2017.

The first three of those products have been deemed obsolete by Microsoft, and Windows Server 2003 will reach its end of life on July 14. As a result, Microsoft has stopped issuing free security updates but will continue to do so on a paid basis for customers like the Navy that are still using those products.

The Navy began a transition away from XP in 2013, but as of May it still had approximately 100,000 workstations running XP or the other software.

"The Navy relies on a number of legacy applications and programs that are reliant on legacy Windows products," said Steven Davis, a spokesman for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in San Diego. "Until those applications and programs are modernized or phased out, this continuity of services is required to maintain operational effectiveness."

Davis wouldn't provide more details about the systems or their use, citing cybersecurity policy, but an unclassified Navy document says the Microsoft applications affect "critical command and control systems" on ships and land-based legacy systems. Affected systems are connected to NIPRnet, the U.S. government's IP network for non-classified information, and SIPRnet, the network for classified information...