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Surely you're joking? "Click here to change your upgrade schedule" is in such tiny font of course no one will see it. If Microsoft cared about its users, that option would be way bigger than it is. Edit: They purposely put in all that information because they know people won't want to read through all that. That dialog is purposely designed to trick users because they've been taught that if they want to cancel, hit t…
It is in the normal font size for that system, compare it with the window title. The "this is recommended" and the date are the only enlarged bits in that window. > all that I don't know about you, but to me and most anyone i know the amount of text in that window is miniscule. Difference in perspective i guess. As for what users are taught to: What i and everyone else i know have been taught to is "Read everything t…
the dialog is purposely built to trick users into clicking on the X, something users have been taught to do and what has always by default been, "cancel, don't do whatever this dialog box tried asking you to do."
also, when is the last time you saw a dialog box with that much text? which dialog boxes have you been reading exactly? even so, it's not as though the amount of text telling the user absolves them from their dark design patterns to trick users. microsoft did the bare minimum to let users know and changed the way the ui works by having the close button _agree_ to the changes rather than canceling them.