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Woman Wins $10,000 Lawsuit Against Microsoft Over Windows 10 Upgrades (seattletimes.com)

An anonymous reader shares this story from the Seattle Times: 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.

2 of 443 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Cue the lawsuits. by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Informative

    The thing is the EULA you accepted for Windows 8/7/95 etc does not apply to Windows 10. If they shove Windows 10 down your throat it really doesn't matter what the Windows 10 EULA is when you click decline and it fucks up your computer when "uninstalling".

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  2. Re:lol by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Informative

    you still think its a campus...

    It's a freaking space relay when finished it will fire a beam of energy into space to carry Jobs essence back to his homeworld.

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