Microsoft pays $10,000 after automatic Win10 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.

P.S.
If you need some new gear ($10,000!!!)...you know what to do, now.

Source
guru3D.com

 

Good. Hopefully Crapple's next. Lol

 

Microsoft paid this as 'hush money' wishing to avoid the Streisand Effect.

So far, that seems a pretty good gambit.

 

With all these horror stories I hear, If i owned a windows pc, i'd jump all over filing a lawsuit. Maybe i'll get a cheap second hand pc just to sue lol jk hahaha

 

I heard of so many people with companies that it fucked with their business.

Too bad that shit does not work in Europe

Hopefully many people sue and get something out of it in the US

Not that MS would even notice losing a few million here or there...

 

Linux in Windows 10 - Official

 

Microsoft is famous for introducing a whole world of features and actions that their Windows and Office users simply don't want.
Or should I say "tricking their users into all kinds of nasty stuff"?

Many of today's features are more like stumbling blocks than helping users with productivity.

If you don't want this to continue, you'll likely have to stop using Windows, and unfortunately there's not much of an alternative to Mac OSX in the audio world, except if you agree to live with a rather limited set of audio software under Linux (And that can even be a good thing sometimes!)

 

Nice but that doens't benefit for audio at all :/