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Microsoft Faces Two New Lawsuits Over Aggressive Windows 10 Upgrade Tactics

Posted by msmash on from the growing-pain dept.

Microsoft is facing two more lawsuits over its Windows 10 upgrade tactics. The first lawsuit comes from U.S. District Court in Florida, where the company has been accused of violating "laws governing unsolicited electronic advertisements" The suit, PCWorld reports, says Microsoft's tactics are against the FTC's rules on deceptive and unfair practices. The second lawsuit was filed last month in Haifa, Israel alleging that Microsoft installed Windows 10 on users' computer without their consent. It's similar to another recent lawsuit that was filed against Microsoft in which the Redmond company had to pay a sum of $10,000. The company, however, believes that these new lawsuits won't succeed. In a statement to The Seattle Times, the company said:We believe the plaintiffs' claims are without merit and we are confident we'll be successful in court.

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  1. Class-Action? by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's gotta be a lot of others impacted. A Yuuuuge class-action lawsuit may be in order. A law firm could advertise, asking about those affected, and collect the claims together.

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    1. Re:Class-Action? by Stan92057 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Ive thought about that a lot and i really believe MS should support all their OS...security wise .Allowing hundreds of millions of PCs to go un patched security wise is a national security issue..Win 7 been out for how long and still every month their is a new security patch and just because its old and they are tired of supporting it..i say too bad, they released a product that was a security nightmare,and continues to be one. Plus this PC i own can run win 7 forever really. if they don't want to then they should be forced to open the code so it can be fixed. that's my opinion anyways

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  2. MS keeps breaking the machines of elderly people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    On Monday I had to repair yet another Win7 computer, where Win10 installation had started without user consent and had broken the system. In practice the Win10 installer had created a new user (without real name, just a random UUID) and removed the ownership and write permissions from the computer owner users home directory tree. Unsurprisingly all the applications, including Windows explorer failed to function properly. It seems that current applications just ignore any file IO errors without any indication or hint to user what operation did not work.

  3. Re:Just the beginning by imidan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I own three computers running Windows 7 at the moment. For my primary desktop, I bought a new hard drive and installed Windows 10 on it to check it out. I didn't hate it, but I was left asking why I would bother upgrading when there is no killer feature of Windows 10 that seems to make it better than 7? Then I got busy, and I put the Windows 7 drive back in because I needed to get stuff done and not waste time configuring a new OS. I've been thinking of switching back recently, but then all this news comes out about not being able to disable Cortana or lock screens or apps... They almost had me, but now I'm going to continue putting it off.