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Woman Wins $10,000 Lawsuit Against Microsoft Over Windows 10 Upgrades
SlashDot ^ | Jun 27, 2016 | Anon

Posted on 06/27/2016 9:47:33 AM PDT by dayglored

A few days after Microsoft released Windows 10 to the public last year, Teri Goldstein's computer started trying to download and install the new operating system. The update, which she says she didn't authorize, failed. Instead, the computer she uses to run her Sausalito, California, travel-agency business slowed to a crawl. It would crash, she says, and be unusable for days at a time.

"I had never heard of Windows 10," Goldstein said. "Nobody ever asked me if I wanted to update."
When outreach to Microsoft's customer support didn't fix the issue, Goldstein took the software giant to court, seeking compensation for lost wages and the cost of a new computer. She won. Last month, Microsoft dropped an appeal and Goldstein collected a $10,000 judgment from the company.

Microsoft denies any wrongdoing, and says they only halted their appeal to avoid the cost of further litigation.

[More at the OP article (link).]

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: lawsuit; microsoft; msn; windows; windows10; windowspinglist
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To: doomtrooper99

Billions. This kind of hubris and violation of people’s freedom of choice should be at least a near-death experience for the company, one that COULD never be forgotten.


21 posted on 06/27/2016 10:07:19 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: ToxicMich
> Windows 10 sucks rock. Had to remove it from my tablet/computer because it rendered the majority of my apps obsolete. I must admit that reverting back to Windows 8 was a breeze.

I'm glad you were able to roll back easily. What amazes me is that you prefer Win8. To each their own. ;-)

22 posted on 06/27/2016 10:07:22 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Spunky

Same thing happened to me. It seemed that I had “caught it in time” and reverted back to Win 7, but it caused me a lot of heartache and inconvenience. If my husband had gotten to the computer first, he probably would’ve clicked “Yes, Complete Download” just to get the message off the screen. Then we would be stuck with Windoze 10. >:-(


23 posted on 06/27/2016 10:08:47 AM PDT by nutmeg (Hillary's Lies Matter)
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To: Spunky

Or how much “cruft” was left on your hard drive.


24 posted on 06/27/2016 10:09:25 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Telepathic Intruder

maybe if 10,000,000 more $10,000 lawsuits pop up he will be.


25 posted on 06/27/2016 10:13:40 AM PDT by CapnJack
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To: dayglored

if the upgrade fails it resets back to previous windows and nothing changes , I suspect sabotage on her part


26 posted on 06/27/2016 10:20:14 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: dayglored

As a current Windows 10 user, I say again, why does Microsoft want to foist this system on us so urgently. I’ve seen the explanation that Microsoft would benefit handsomely from advertisements via Windows 10, but I still wonder. Maybe Microsoft will join all our Windows 10 computers into one giant botnet to spam the world with ads that will make them millions? Or perhaps Windows 10 is extraordinarily efficient in collecting all our personal information, should we not opt out, for purposes of targeting us with specific ads or even sharing it with government entities?


27 posted on 06/27/2016 10:25:45 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cuckservative: a "conservative" willing to raise another country's ideology in his own country)
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To: Windflier; rarestia

Maybe Gates is behind this massive Windows 10 push in order to sterilize first-world computer users with electromagnetic radiation from Windows 10 computers.


28 posted on 06/27/2016 10:27:32 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cuckservative: a "conservative" willing to raise another country's ideology in his own country)
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To: dayglored

f anybody hears of a class action for forced upgrades, lemme know


29 posted on 06/27/2016 10:28:29 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: dayglored

Did they pay her out of petty cash?


30 posted on 06/27/2016 10:29:07 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: dayglored

WINxit


31 posted on 06/27/2016 10:30:58 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: dayglored

This very evening I have to go to Geek Squad to pick up my PC which had crashed thanks to Window 10. All my files & apps are gone. I didn’t realize what a dud this OS has been.


32 posted on 06/27/2016 10:34:40 AM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: Marko413

“.. no complaints here from me”

Yes, but what about the extra spying of your browsing habits that Windows 10 is doing?


33 posted on 06/27/2016 10:36:01 AM PDT by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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To: dayglored

I have a Lenovo tablet and many functionalities didn’t work anymore with Windows 10 (Veriface to name one). I did keep Windows 10 on my desktop, so...


34 posted on 06/27/2016 10:39:12 AM PDT by ToxicMich ((If you are reading this, you are wasting your time. There is nothing here...))
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To: howlinhound
If that really bothers you, PC World offered these tips

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2971725/windows/how-to-reclaim-your-privacy-in-windows-10-piece-by-piece.html

35 posted on 06/27/2016 10:39:13 AM PDT by Marko413
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To: ToxicMich

ToxicMich, you were lucky. I tried upgrading from Windows 7 to 10 last August, and it was a disaster. A lot of my old favorite programs would not work, including MS Office 10(!), and the new software couldn’t access the Internet, so the Edge browser and Cortana were useless. To go back to Windows 7, I had to reformat my C Drive, and run the emergency recovery DVDs I made when I bought that computer.

Now I am getting a popup every couple hours, asking if I want to upgrade. No thanks, Microsoft never compensated me for the days of my life I lost from last year’s upgrade and recovery. I wonder if I can sue to get rid of the upgrade attempts?


36 posted on 06/27/2016 10:39:34 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Berosus
“ToxicMich, you were lucky. “

I know. I did a stupid thing by installing it without reading about it before. After I installed it I read about all the problems it was causing to the Lenovo tablet.

I learned my lesson.

37 posted on 06/27/2016 10:47:22 AM PDT by ToxicMich ((If you are reading this, you are wasting your time. There is nothing here...))
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To: MoochPooch
All my files & apps are gone.
Sorry to hear that but you violated one of the original, cardinal rules of computing - never keep your data/files on the hard drive.
Programs can be reloaded after a crash, but lost data is gone forever (although SpinRite saved the day a few times :)
38 posted on 06/27/2016 10:53:09 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: dayglored

“therefore the user will be charged...”

That’s going to be difficult when they don’t have any method of payment for most Windows users (since the majority are purchased with OEM licenses from the hardware vendor).

If they do have a method of payment and charge you without specific authorization, then they just violated quite a few federal laws.


39 posted on 06/27/2016 10:55:03 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Larry Lucido

No. They gave her a lifetime supply of Free updates!


40 posted on 06/27/2016 10:59:31 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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