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Guru3D.com » News » Microsoft pays 10,000 after automatic Windows 10 installation

Microsoft pays 10,000 after automatic Windows 10 installation

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/28/2016 07:43 AM | source: | 30 comment(s)
Microsoft pays 10,000 after automatic Windows 10 installation

Microsoft has to pay a woman $10,000 in compensation after she began a lawsuit against the company because of an unwanted Windows 10 upgrade. Her computer was slow and struggled with crashes after upgrading, is claimed.

The American woman uses her computer for its travel agency. Last year her computer updated to Windows 10, without her consent the says ."I had never heard of Windows 10. No one ever asked me if I wanted to update."

The update failed, her computer become slower and she now had to deal with crashes. The Microsoft helpdesk could not help her solve the problem, she went to court to demand compensation. The woman won this lawsuit.

Microsoft appealed but let it fall "to avoid spending any upcoming problems. The company pays the woman ten thousand dollars. Microsoft gets a lot of criticism about the intrusive way in which the new operating system tries to install. The forceful rollout has angered users, but has also boosted Windows 10 numbers, crossing 270 million users by the end of March 2016, running on 17.43% of the worlds’ computers - second only to Windows 7 - according to data from Netmarketshare. Whether the lawsuit and $10,000 judgment will spawn further suits over failed or forced Windows 10 installs remains to be seen. Goldstein has shown it’s possible, which could open the floodgates.



Microsoft pays 10,000 after automatic Windows 10 installation




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Humanoid_1
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#5296216 Posted on: 06/28/2016 10:02 AM
I do not feel one bit sorry for M$ after they changed the function function of the X in the top right of the "upgrade" window from Close --> Start Install with no way to back out...

They deserve a Flood of court cases for that one lol

k3vst3r
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#5296236 Posted on: 06/28/2016 10:31 AM
Too much compensation, MS should only cover cost of new laptop? All this does is open flood gates for more claims.

KissSh0t
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#5296249 Posted on: 06/28/2016 10:50 AM
Too much compensation, MS should only cover cost of new laptop? All this does is open flood gates for more claims.


The laptop was used to run a business, the compensation is from interfering with a business due to the laptop being rendered useless by the forced installation of Windows 10, which rendered the laptop unusable.

Turanis
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#5296266 Posted on: 06/28/2016 11:08 AM
Good,good.
NOt everyone are geeks in computers&gaming as most of you. :)

As a laptop used for bussines this is a worst nightmare if your database or some documents are broken or stolen because M$$$ dont give a damn about security policy or privacy.

Its not a big money she won,but next time M$$$ maybe will proceed with caution.

sverek
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#5296272 Posted on: 06/28/2016 11:11 AM
They take our jobs!

Dey turk err jurbs!

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