Microsoft sued for Forcing Windows 10 on People and Compared to Skynet

Microsoft sued for Forcing Windows 10 on People and Compared to Skynet

Were You Forced to Upgrade to Windows 10?

Did you suffer any damage to your PC or any loss of earnings?

If so then you could sue M$ for damages and loss and collect $15.000.

Last week three men from Florida started legal suits against Microsoft for forcing Windows 10 upon them. They claim that they were coerced into upgrading to Windows 10 and M$ did not provide any option for them to reject the upgrade and say their marketing campaign breaches several federal laws in its aggressive tactics.

Many people have installed Windows 10 "by accident" or have woke up the next day to find their OS looking a bit different after simply not being able to avoid all the constant notices encouraging people to download the Free Windows 10 Operating System which is more than capable of installing itself, by itself before your next reboot. Very much like when Skynet becomes officially aware and is able to act autonomously on its own.

The three men suing M$ are Robert Stahl, Ahmad Al Khafaji & Ahmad Abdulreda and it's claimed that M$ will be defending the claim after someone from the M$ HQ said;

The Windows 10 upgrade is a choice designed to help people take advantage of the most secure, and most productive Windows. Customers have the option not to upgrade to Windows 10. Should a customer need help with the upgrade experience, we have numerous options including free customer support. We believe the plaintiffs’ claims are without merit and we are confident we’ll be successful in court.

They do say that anyone that upgrades to Windows 10 can downgrade back to their previous OS again within one month of installing Windows 10 but this isn't made very clear to the user.

And there's still the elephant in the room! There's still the aggressive marketing techniques used which for such a big company begs question. Just recently, M$ changed the way that people are notified and prompted into upgrading to Windows 10 following complaints from people claiming the upgrade took place on its own without their permission to do so.

Also I don't remember if you remember the notification but clicking the little red x in the top right hand corner of the upgrade window to just close the window wouldn't stop the update from being scheduled anyway.


Robert Stahl, Ahmad Al Khafaji & Ahmad Abdulreda Vs Microsoft

Will they win? Well according to the Tech Times, M$ have already previously been sued and lost in another recent court case just last month where M$ paid a Teri Goldstein from California $15,000 dollars recovery for lost earnings she incurred and a new computer which she claims was damaged after the unauthorized upgrade to Windows 10 which didn't work but failed and crashed her computer so that it wouldn't work for days making her travel agency business grind to a halt in what would ordinarily be a busy time of the year.

The actual lawsuit itself was ended after plaintiffs ruled M$ broke more than three different acts one being the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act, the Junk Fax Prevention Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act and others.

An argument put across was is that some computers are not powerful enough to run Windows 10 OS on them which is more memory intensive than previous Windows OS's and that even after the upgrade has happened, one would need to be very computer literally and savvy to then remove it and downgrade. In fact they even suggested that all the forced upgrades could run into tens of millions of dollars of damage to peoples computers and maybe ten times that much in lawsuits being filed against M$ if those same people come forward and open further lawsuits.

A Necessary Evil?

The judging plaintiffs make a point when they say that M$ was well aware of all the damage that would be done to peoples computers by forcing the upgrade on them but still went ahead and done that, quite aggressively too coming to the assumption that it would only be a small amount of users that would have a problem. However that same small percentage of people could be a very costly and seriously damaging thing to one of the worlds giant super organizations that is M$. And they obviously have their reasons for using such aggressive marketing techniques. Especially when you consider the fact that Windows 10 was FREE! It must be that there is a logical reason for this and it makes more sense for them for the majority of computers in the world to be running Windows 10 instead of any other OS.

M$ do say that Windows 10 is the most stable and most secure OS of them all. And so that from that perspective, it's the one that has the less viruses/malware etc targeted to it. So that would make sense because they don't want people to get infected and fall a victim to that as those same people will blame M$ for it so one can understand that and they have that going for them.

There's clearly much more motive to it than meets the eye. But this could cause other people to follow suit and further sue M$ for even more damages and losses.

Were you forced into upgrading to Windows 10?

Did you wake up one day to find out you'd been upgraded?

Have you suffered any loss of earnings or damage from the upgrade?

Do you think that M$'s marketing tactics were too agressive or justified?

Could there be other possible lawsuits and payouts?

Time will tell!