Woman sues Microsoft over her forced Windows 10 upgrade and wins

[Diosoth]

Why am I reminded of the woman who spilled hot coffee on herself and then sued the vendor because she got burned. ???

You mean that time McDonalds served coffee that was far hotter than it should have been, and the woman had to go to the hospital to be treated for 3rd degree burns?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants

Yeah, totally her fault they served it excessively hot, your image certainly applies to you.

And you know what? MS has been trying to force this on PC users who do not want it, against their will, potentially onto PCs that aren't even up to hardware spec to be running it in the first place. They asked to be sued.

 

[Indianatone]

I agree with other posters. If you ask someone who is not a Computer Geek what version of the operating system are you using you'll get everything from a blank look, OS? Google to Chrome to XP to Windows. People who are experts in other fields. My next door neighbor is a retired firefighter and EMT has a Vista PC which I added 2 Gb of ram to make 4 Gb ram on a core 2 duo runs very well. He told me he used XP he thought. Outside of Geekdom computers are just tools for people to work on. When it no longer works the user will try to describe what happened in layman's terms.
What Microsoft has done is appalling and hiding behind EULA and lawyers is typical of the convicted monopoly. There are also a bunch of Microsoft Press agents posting BS on many forums. Windows 10 is a failure. If it was that good as it is free no one would bother keeping 7 and 8.1 but many have. 7 still has well over 50% of the market. I hope this opens the doors for other users who had to spend good money on getting their PC's fixed after the 10 fiasco bricked their PC. The only way to get back at Microsoft is small claims courts so have at it.

 

[ThrashZone]

The Lady in this 10k judgement was not small claims court unless small claims in Cali is 10k max

 

[Indianatone]

The Lady in this 10k judgement was not small claims court unless small claims in Cali is 10k max

Really Thrash.......

'I urge everyone to fight back' – woman wins $10k from Microsoft over Windows 10 misery • The Register

I'll let you off as you are from Texas and it is really hot there.

 

[ThrashZone]

Dang not bad of a max

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Dang not bad of a max

Texas is also $10k. 50-State Chart of Small Claims Court Dollar Limits | Nolo.com

 

[ThrashZone]

Never knew that either

 

[Brds7t7]

The Lady in this 10k judgement was not small claims court unless small claims in Cali is 10k max

Really Thrash.......

'I urge everyone to fight back' – woman wins $10k from Microsoft over Windows 10 misery • The Register

I'll let you off as you are from Texas and it is really hot there.

I REALLY like her!

 

[Dallas 7]

YES!

Now if enterprises would get into the act...

Totally agree with you Fitz. MS has been asking for it, they finally got.

 

[Brds7t7]

YES!

Now if enterprises would get into the act...

Totally agree with you Fitz. MS has been asking for it, they finally got.

And they could be getting even more! :roflmao:

New York Attorney-General pursuing further cases against Microsoft over "forced" Windows 10 upgrades

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

YES!

Now if enterprises would get into the act...

Totally agree with you Fitz. MS has been asking for it, they finally got.

And they could be getting even more! :roflmao:

New York Attorney-General pursuing further cases against Microsoft over "forced" Windows 10 upgrades

Darned well about time! Actually, it's well past time that law enforcement agencies got on the stick. I wonder how long before the mass tort lawyers start advertising on TV?

 

[alphanumeric]

Enterprise editions are exempt from the free upgrade offer by the way. They won't get the GWX APP. Plus, if those corporate PC's upgrade via WUS, the IT guy will block GWX from ever reaching corporate PC's, no matter what version of Windows they are running. It's unlikely that any large company will get the free upgrade by accident. Microsoft have changed the GWX App so you can now decline the offer with no further prompts to upgrade. Don't get me wrong, I don't like the way this has been handled by Microsoft one little bit. But they have finally bowed to pressure and relented some.

 

[Dallas 7]

YES!

Now if enterprises would get into the act...

Totally agree with you Fitz. MS has been asking for it, they finally got.

And they could be getting even more! :roflmao:

New York Attorney-General pursuing further cases against Microsoft over "forced" Windows 10 upgrades

I always used to be a MS supporter, but no more. W8 could've and should've been something brilliant but instead it was something stupid, and 10's forced updates are just as bad.
I hope those lawyers stick Microsoft's underhanded tactics along with their forced updates right up MS's place where the sun don't shine.

 

[Stevekir]

You just hit the head on the nail! Too many geeks (geek is not an insult, btw) forget that most people are not as knowledgeable as they are and will assume that everyone will know what they consider to be basic knowledge when the opposite is what is true.

.......

How true. How very true. The difference between a techie and an ordinary person is that when the techie explains something, he/she draws on a part of his mind called "everything he knows", which leads him to think that he has communicated. The problem is the ordinary person does not have access to that, so gets only a small part of what he needs. Our daughter aged 3 was told that a certain TV program would be on at 10 past 2. At 3 o'clock she asked about it and was told it was too late, "because its gone 10 past 2". "Where has 10 past 2 gone?"! In principal we should have given her just a small part of our "everything we know" about time and clocks when we told her earlier about the program.

Techies are extremely valuable people, no doubt about that, but in my experience quite a lot of what they give gets lost on delivery.

 

[Eric3742]

This was last week news, i had read it.

As what i understand:

She have several PCs for her working place.
She did not do the upgrade to Windows 10 because her special program is not for Windows 10.
Hence she did not do the upgrade and ensure all the PCs do not do automatically.

But one of her PC was upgrade to Windows 10 without her permission.
Because of this, she had lost her business.
Hence she sue Microsoft for auto upgrade to Windows 10.

In this scenario, there is one important aspect to take note.

When you run Windows Updates, the webpage will show you that the Windows 10 upgrade is ready.
The most important thing to note "Get started".

This could mean that this "Get started", will mean that you have give permission to Microsoft to upgrade to Windows 10.

Hence, from this, as long as you do not click "Get started", it will never auto upgrade for you.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Actually it was closer to 3 week ago news
No telling when the judgement was passed I did not notice it only the articles date which was 6-27-2016

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

This was last week news, i had read it.

As what i understand:

She have several PCs for her working place.
She did not do the upgrade to Windows 10 because her special program is not for Windows 10.
Hence she did not do the upgrade and ensure all the PCs do not do automatically.

But one of her PC was upgrade to Windows 10 without her permission.
Because of this, she had lost her business.
Hence she sue Microsoft for auto upgrade to Windows 10.

In this scenario, there is one important aspect to take note.

When you run Windows Updates, the webpage will show you that the Windows 10 upgrade is ready.
The most important thing to note "Get started".

This could mean that this "Get started", will mean that you have give permission to Microsoft to upgrade to Windows 10.

Hence, from this, as long as you do not click "Get started", it will never auto upgrade for you.

You have no clue what you are talking about. First, the sneak "upgrade" took place back in August 2015, long before most people ever heard about Win 10, let alone knew how to avoid the "upgrade".

I couldn't find any news reports that said she had several computers in her workplace. I seriously doubt that she does since she is the sole owner and operator of her business (look it up).

The "upgrade" kept failing, causing her computer to be pretty much unusable. She phoned MS for help and even went to an MS store trying to get her computer working correctly again but MS was unable to help her. Suing was her last resort after several months (I personally would not have waited that long).

Read it all here. Customer wins $10K judgment from Microsoft over unauthorized Windows 10 upgrade | Computerworld

 

[tonytran]

Somehow, Windows 10 in her PC has been upgraded automatically without her permission and make a lost in profit. That's the reason why she won the case.

This was last week news, i had read it.

As what i understand:

She have several PCs for her working place.
She did not do the upgrade to Windows 10 because her special program is not for Windows 10.
Hence she did not do the upgrade and ensure all the PCs do not do automatically.

But one of her PC was upgrade to Windows 10 without her permission.
Because of this, she had lost her business.
Hence she sue Microsoft for auto upgrade to Windows 10.

In this scenario, there is one important aspect to take note.

When you run Windows Updates, the webpage will show you that the Windows 10 upgrade is ready.
The most important thing to note "Get started".

This could mean that this "Get started", will mean that you have give permission to Microsoft to upgrade to Windows 10.

Hence, from this, as long as you do not click "Get started", it will never auto upgrade for you.

 

[Kitty Hawk]

I made a horrible and terribly rude error in judgement a few years ago in assuming a friend of mine knew the same little bits of things I did about choosing, acquiring and installing a Start Orb in Windows 10 with a reliable third party app.

Once.

We're still friends.

 

[0pTicaL]

Not sure how M$ can get away with Windows 10 malware (yes Windows 10 is malware in my book) and not have a class action lawsuit up their behind.