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Microsoft Dodges Class Action In WGA Lawsuit

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. In other news by DarkofPeace · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/01/21/2014204/Supreme-Court-Rolls-Back-Corporate-Campaign-Spending-Limits

  2. Re:Oblig userfriendly cartoon by nomadic · · 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.

  3. HAIRYFEET TROLLS AND LOSES BADLY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Ahhh....I know I shouldn't slap the fanboy, but I'm bored people, and therefor can't help it." - by hairyfeet (841228) on Thursday January 21, @07:58PM (#30854896)

    Hairyfeet, You had to "eat your words" numerous times in the exchanges in these very posts which everyone will now see, verbatim, by just going to them here:

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    ("Exhibit A", where I merely extolled both SPEED and SECURITY issues in FAVOR of Opera, vs. FireFox):

    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1519698&cid=30852888

    ("Exhibit B" ,where I first caught you in mistakes, regarding SPEED and SECURITY issues in FAVOR of Opera, vs. FireFox):

    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1519698&cid=30856394

    ("Exhibit C", where I further caught you in mistakes, regarding SPEED and SECURITY issues in FAVOR of Opera, vs. FireFox):

    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1519698&cid=30856658

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    (Big mistake(s) on your part, starting up hassles with others by your intentionally trolling!)

    ANYONE IS FREE TO READ THE ABOVE, WHERE "HAIRYFEET" HERE FIRST ADMITTEDLY TROLLED MYSELF & GOT HIS ASS HANDED TO HIM, WITH EASE, & LMAO - DUE TO HIS OWN MISTAKES & RANTS!

    (Hilarious!)

    Whereas, by way of comparison (when I tried to warn he to leave me be no less, initially)?

    I stated nothing but verifiable facts in the 1st URL, & subsequently supporting ones regarding BOTH Opera, FireFox (& addons for them).

    APK

    P.S.=> The result? "HAIRYFEET" ran, like the TYPICAL /. TROLL (or, any other elsewhere) when confronted with facts, vs. his fictions and outrageous technical errors...

    However, before he ran (in "typical troll fashion" no less)? He lastly used the OLDEST "troll trick" in the book: Downrating ALL of my posts as "offtopic" & "troll" etc. / et al (Where my replies actually WERE on-topic unlike his largely stupid & erroneous replies no less)...

    No, I think from now on here? Well - Everyone ought to see EXACTLY how you & those LIKE YOU, operate around here & elsewhere online as well (and how you UTTERLY "screwed-up" for it on your part also, all per the above examples thereof on YOUR part)... apk