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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.
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#5298167 Posted on: 06/30/2016 03:37 PM
Totally useless people more like.
I don't understand some people who have to have the very latest and greatest yet they are stuck on a 10+ year old OS.
MS just wants everybody on the same OS because old OSes will become more of a security risk as time goes by.
Of course they are in it for the money but i think very kind of them to give it away for free in the first place.
I have a really old laptop with a single core and 2gb of ram that my misses uses sometimes for browsing and playing FB games. I got Win 10 working on it fine.
In fact it actually runs much better with 10 over Vista that was on it.
My only problem is that with a new OS comes potentially broken games and drivers which may or may not get fixed.
Totally useless people more like.
I don't understand some people who have to have the very latest and greatest yet they are stuck on a 10+ year old OS.
MS just wants everybody on the same OS because old OSes will become more of a security risk as time goes by.
Of course they are in it for the money but i think very kind of them to give it away for free in the first place.
I have a really old laptop with a single core and 2gb of ram that my misses uses sometimes for browsing and playing FB games. I got Win 10 working on it fine.
In fact it actually runs much better with 10 over Vista that was on it.
My only problem is that with a new OS comes potentially broken games and drivers which may or may not get fixed.
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#5298272 Posted on: 06/30/2016 06:26 PM
Valid concerns but unwarranted because compatibility is being implemented constantly.
I play old games a lot myself and never had any issues recently. As for drivers, if you have an older system and driver support has stopped then i'm afraid you will need to upgrade those unsupported components.
Even if i didn't use Win 10 and say i wanted a new mobo then i'd still make sure it was at least giving support for the newest OS first before buying it.
I bought a 970A-UD3P recently because my sons mobo was an older AMD770 chipset and driver support or bios support mainly was old and has never been upgraded for Win 10. The gigabyte 970/990 boards are really old too but all of them have had recent bios updates for Win 10 support. Of course that's up to Gigabyte to do since nearly all drivers are mobo related.
FC bios for this ancient chipset was released 2016/03/02 which i have to say Kudos to Gigabyte for as they must be concentrating on AM4/Intel right now.
My only problem is that with a new OS comes potentially broken games and drivers which may or may not get fixed.
Valid concerns but unwarranted because compatibility is being implemented constantly.
I play old games a lot myself and never had any issues recently. As for drivers, if you have an older system and driver support has stopped then i'm afraid you will need to upgrade those unsupported components.
Even if i didn't use Win 10 and say i wanted a new mobo then i'd still make sure it was at least giving support for the newest OS first before buying it.
I bought a 970A-UD3P recently because my sons mobo was an older AMD770 chipset and driver support or bios support mainly was old and has never been upgraded for Win 10. The gigabyte 970/990 boards are really old too but all of them have had recent bios updates for Win 10 support. Of course that's up to Gigabyte to do since nearly all drivers are mobo related.
FC bios for this ancient chipset was released 2016/03/02 which i have to say Kudos to Gigabyte for as they must be concentrating on AM4/Intel right now.
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#5298586 Posted on: 07/01/2016 04:08 AM
So..this lady has no idea how to run a computer, but decides to run her business off of that computer she has no idea how to run, and successfully sues microsoft for it?
Remind me never to make any program, ever.
So..this lady has no idea how to run a computer, but decides to run her business off of that computer she has no idea how to run, and successfully sues microsoft for it?
Remind me never to make any program, ever.
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#5298590 Posted on: 07/01/2016 04:23 AM
So..this lady has no idea how to run a computer, but decides to run her business off of that computer she has no idea how to run, and successfully sues microsoft for it?
Remind me never to make any program, ever.
Well, if you decide to work at caffee and one of your customers spil coffee and got burn, there chances you might get sued for making coffee too hot.
You also can be sued for looking at person and be charged with "stalking and sexual abuse".
Its not about what you did wrong, its about how badly someone want to **** you up. Lawers gonna do magic with law, find a weak spot and you in jail in no time, along with charges you won't be able to pay in your whole life.
Don't you love our society? Best thing is not to cross anyone, keep emotions at bay and fix mistakes asap.
EDIT: Don't worry about M$. They could **** that woman back, their lawers probably wanted more money than she demanded, so they end up paying her.
M$ can wipe ass with $10,000. Its nothing for them, like that suing women.
So..this lady has no idea how to run a computer, but decides to run her business off of that computer she has no idea how to run, and successfully sues microsoft for it?
Remind me never to make any program, ever.
Well, if you decide to work at caffee and one of your customers spil coffee and got burn, there chances you might get sued for making coffee too hot.
You also can be sued for looking at person and be charged with "stalking and sexual abuse".
Its not about what you did wrong, its about how badly someone want to **** you up. Lawers gonna do magic with law, find a weak spot and you in jail in no time, along with charges you won't be able to pay in your whole life.
Don't you love our society? Best thing is not to cross anyone, keep emotions at bay and fix mistakes asap.
EDIT: Don't worry about M$. They could **** that woman back, their lawers probably wanted more money than she demanded, so they end up paying her.
M$ can wipe ass with $10,000. Its nothing for them, like that suing women.
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I'm not talking about right now, i'm talking about when Win 7 stops getting any support in the near future.
Store/AppX stuff is all removed from win 10 if you want it to be. Win 7 is a Pita firstly because SPs and secondly over 400 KBs as you said. Bloated by KB's and a nightmare now to do a fresh install. Win 10 is a 10 minute install and it's done.
You think MS hasn't learned from all those Win 7 KB's and not made sure Win 10 is already fixed? You talk as if the new OS hasn't had any lessons from previous iterations.
I'm not saying Win 10 isn't more of a target because of course it is but i believe those 400+ KB's are already built into win 10 and vulnerabilities won't be anywhere near as bad as they were with 7.