Microsoft Dodges Class Action In WGA Lawsuit

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 22, 2010 @02:44AM from the hire-your-own-lawyer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A lawsuit that accused Microsoft of misleading consumers to download and install an update for Windows Genuine Advantage under the guise that it was critical security update will go forward, but not as a class action. A federal judge has refused to certify the lawsuit as a class action, which would have meant that anyone who owned a Windows XP PC in mid-2006 could join the case without having to hire an attorney. As Windows XP was easily the most popular operating system at the time, the ruling means Redmond has managed to avoid hundreds of millions in potential damages."

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In other news by DarkofPeace · 2010-01-22 03:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/01/21/2014204/Supreme-Court-Rolls-Back-Corporate-Campaign-Spending-Limits
Re:Oblig userfriendly cartoon by nomadic · 2010-01-22 07:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Good grief is the art still that bad? I haven't read that in 10 years, I'd assume it would improve at some level. I mean, that's enough time to go to art school up through an MFA and learn to draw from scratch.