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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: rarestia

What happens in a month?


61 posted on 06/27/2016 2:22:57 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Elites' on both sides of the pond are scared the gravy train's ending - demographic warfare exposed)
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To: GOPJ; rarestia
> What happens in a month?

The free upgrade offer dies, and you have to pay for the upgrade.

62 posted on 06/27/2016 2:44:29 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

It keeps trying to load on my computer. If I don’t wait around while my computer is booting up and I am not there to decline the load, it starts loading.


63 posted on 06/27/2016 3:21:51 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Hillary is Satan's spiritual advisor.)
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To: MoochPooch
All my files & apps are gone.

If your hard drive still works, that is probably not true unless someone ignored warnings of data loss and instructed Win 10 to reformat the drive. The "upgrade" install, and even a typical install over Win 7/8 from a Win 10 iso file, preserves your old files.

64 posted on 06/27/2016 4:27:47 PM PDT by TChad
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To: tbw2

It is a link to a page where you can download a utility to stop the installation of Windows 10. It is from GRC.com ( Steve Gibsons site - a trusted site to download from )


65 posted on 06/27/2016 7:19:49 PM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: dayglored

I’ve also heard that there are class action suits in the wings for people using metered Internet services, where they’re charged “out the wazoo” for any overages on their data usage.

Imagine you’ve got a 5GB Internet limit, and MS downloads, without your permission, nearly 10GB of content to your hard drive. You have to pay for the overage.

Mark


66 posted on 06/27/2016 10:47:16 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: dayglored

What amazes me is that you prefer Win8. To each their own. ;-)

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In my opinion, win 10 sucks less than win 8, they both suck though.

Like you said, to each his own.


67 posted on 06/27/2016 10:58:26 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Crooked Hillary's going down and I aint talkin about, on Huma.)
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To: dayglored
Microsoft ... says they only halted their appeal to avoid the cost of further litigation
I smell Bullsh*t. When does MS roll over for anyone?

I have a friend who does training courses in the voluntary sector. No direct fees but very essential training for these volunteers so that they can get the necessary quaifications to continue their voluntary work. The people who attend give up their time to be trained and go to some expense to get to the training venue, paying for transport, meals and accomodation where necessay. Her next course was all set up to run on her laptop. Guess what? As she started to present this course, the laptop tried to upgrade to Win10 ! They were able to cancel the update - but the laptop would no longer recognise her projector/audio-visual hardware, and the course had to be abandoned!

I would hate to think how you would calculate a value for the inconvenience that single auto-update attempt caused!

(It took an IT guru hours to get the connection working again, eventually upgrading to 10 at the same time.)
68 posted on 06/28/2016 12:53:05 AM PDT by Mr Radical
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To: TheCipher
It is a link to a page where you can download a utility to stop the installation of Windows 10. It is from GRC.com ( Steve Gibsons site - a trusted site to download from )

A better link is this one. It solves the problem once and for all.

Or, if you are truly lazy and have a little spare change, just click here.

Of course, if you are too scared to click links, then I can't help you. Although, with Windoze lusers, I suppose that reaction is to be expected.

69 posted on 06/28/2016 1:26:48 AM PDT by cynwoody
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