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.