Microsoft is being sued by Windows 10 users

[Dopious]

Requires continued security updates until the number of users is significantly lower.

A Windows 10 user named Lawrence Klein has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft in California, Forbes reports .

He himself owns two laptops that do not meet the system requirements for Windows 11 and accuses the company of abandoning users who cannot update in order to force them to buy new computers optimized for Microsoft's AI software.

Microsoft is aware that many millions of users will not buy a new computer or pay for continued security updates when Windows 10 support ends in October. These users will be at higher risk of being exposed to cyberattacks and other threats, Lawrence Klein's lawyers write in the lawsuit.

Lawrence Klein is asking the court to force Microsoft to continue maintaining the system with free security updates – at least on computers that do not meet the system requirements for Windows 11 – until the percentage of Windows users running Windows 10 is below 10 percent. According to Statcounter's latest figures, the percentage was 43 percent globally and 40 percent in the US in July.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...or-killing-windows-10-all-users-must-act-now/

About fckn time someone did it, what do you think?

 

[Ozzyzig]

I agree with him taking M$ to court on this.
My laptop can't run 11, and the only downside of it is that how it's ten years old, it can't play the latest games.

Apart from that, it's still perfectly functional and I don't fancy having to switch over to Linux.

 

[Rem]

Saw it happening a mile away honestly.
Wasn't this why they gave out free updates for a year or something?

 

[polecat]

Requires continued security updates until the number of users is significantly lower.

A Windows 10 user named Lawrence Klein has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft in California, Forbes reports .

He himself owns two laptops that do not meet the system requirements for Windows 11 and accuses the company of abandoning users who cannot update in order to force them to buy new computers optimized for Microsoft's AI software.

Microsoft is aware that many millions of users will not buy a new computer or pay for continued security updates when Windows 10 support ends in October. These users will be at higher risk of being exposed to cyberattacks and other threats, Lawrence Klein's lawyers write in the lawsuit.

Lawrence Klein is asking the court to force Microsoft to continue maintaining the system with free security updates – at least on computers that do not meet the system requirements for Windows 11 – until the percentage of Windows users running Windows 10 is below 10 percent. According to Statcounter's latest figures, the percentage was 43 percent globally and 40 percent in the US in July.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...or-killing-windows-10-all-users-must-act-now/

About fckn time someone did it, what do you think?

I like his idea.

I knew a lot of governments still use windows XP.

I think overall Microsoft idea to charge for everything made more governments or general people start using Linx more over this such as France or Denmark among others joined linux.

 

[Dopious]

I think overall Microsoft idea to charge for everything made more governments or general people start using Linx more over this such as France or Denmark among others joined linux.

Yes, I just read that our communal region here spends about $140M a year for Office365, Teams and Copilot to MS, and that is just a part of our country.

 

[polecat]

Yes, I just read that our communal region here spends about $140M a year for Office365, Teams and Copilot to MS, and that is just a part of our country.

Very true to me that's way to much money when Linux runs for free without licence costs or expensive hiring costs.

For example in Canada there a school which is still powering heating using Amiga computer which is like 40 years old I doubt they pay him $1million to keep the heating running that at least makes more sense Amiga knowledge quite rare for this purpose.

They should pay some Danish to make own system then rely on the used Window salesman

 

[Dopious]

Very true to me that's way to much money when Linux runs for free without licence costs or expensive hiring costs.

Or just use LibreOffice and another Video meeting software, sorry to say but Linux sux for non technical people, not a smart move.

 

[Ozzyzig]

Or just use LibreOffice and another Video meeting software, sorry to say but Linux sux for non technical people, not a smart move.

I'd agree with that. Windows is a user friendly experience, whereas Linux can be fiddly depending on the distro that's being used.

 

[polecat]

Or just use LibreOffice and another Video meeting software, sorry to say but Linux sux for non technical people, not a smart move.

Not true Pop easy,debian easy,Mint easy most are easier than Windows.

Kids can work Raspberry pi easy so no excuses now for not being tech smart for not using

 

[Dopious]

Not true Pop easy,debian easy,Mint easy most are easier than Windows.

Kids can work Raspberry pi easy so no excuses now for not being tech smart for not using

We are talking about region staff here in the communal offices, it sounds like you never had to do with any tech support for those types before, I can tell you they are not that smart. Stuppid is just the first letter in their names. Been there, done that.

 

[polecat]

We are talking about region staff here in the communal offices, it sounds like you never had to do with any tech support for those types before, I can tell you they are not that smart. Stuppid is just the first letter in their names. Been there, done that.

Have to disagree I did work as a computer engineer for people with little to no knowledge I could explain linux to most easy or not need my help.

I could easily give my parents one of my Pis they could work it.

I fixed my boomer solar panels easy she understood me helping her a couple of weeks ago.

I did as well used program amiga I got help learned enough. Modern Linux is way easier than past technical stuff.

Windows as well is actually getting more complex than Linux. I heard this many times from former Windows users than Linux is easier

 

[SilverClouds]

I think it's all based on habit... You're used to Windows so you say it's easier. I use Linux for many years now (last time I dual-booted with Windows was XP ) so when I try to use Windows it's confusing to me. To be fair OpenBSD is surprisingly confusing to me too since commands are different, etc. Linux desktop distros ain't hard, people are just not used to it. I'm talking about noobie friendly desktop distros, not NixOS .

For me it's whatever - use Windows, that's very malware friendly, beneficial to me . I don't really want to use Windows other than in vm for development . I could think it over for streaming perhaps because I have hard time finding beauty filters for Linux. But with this current Windows drama it's such a hassle to use Windows.