Microsoft seems to be surrounded by a chain of troubles. Recently, three Florida men took them to the Federal court with accusation that Microsoft had coerced them to upgrade their laptop to Windows 10, which damaged their laptops and cost them money and a lot of time.
Microsoft has run an one-year campaign of encouraging Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users to install free Windows 10, which expired on July 29th. Al Khafaji, Ahmad Abudulreda and Robert Stahl were of the first people to bring a suit against Microsoft at the Federal court over this issue. (Before them, there was a travel agent in California who was awarded $10,000 for recognition of damage that unexpected Windows 10 upgrade caused to her business).
They claimed that "Microsoft engaged in a reckless and negligent premise with catastrophic consequences for some of Defendant's customers whose devices were rendered useless and incapable of normal recovery operations. Plaintiffs were coerced into adopting Windows 10 or had Windows 10 installed in various unintentional manners with subsequent damage to their computers after which Plaintiffs sustained unnecessary and avoidable stress, confusion, loss of time and significant monetary damage all at the hands of Defendant."
It is the fact that Microsoft has been carrying out unpredictable processes that they never used for former Windows versions, in order to expedite the acceptance of Windows 10 installation. Those includes automatic download Windows 10 on supported Pcs and automatic updates without approvals of users.
The red “X” on the right top of the pop-up is just a trap created by Microsoft. Instead of being canceled (as the red “X” always means”), the installation will be automatically accepted. Moreover, this kind of pop-up was so annoying that afterwards, Microsoft had to change the way that it displays. Most users had to suffer from this forced free item without knowledge about how to cancel or refuse the upgrade process. This should be the most intolerable thing that Microsoft has done to consumers.
Al Khafaji, Ahmad Abudulreda and Robert Stahl said that they did not expect this type of “free” upgrade. They even stated that this campaign is a good example of Microsoft's monopoly. They explained that by widely spreading Windows, Microsoft meant to make users depend on their products.
Facing with another lawsuit, Microsoft said that they would prevail. They showed confidence to win and stated that plaintiff's accusation was of no merit.
People around the world are paying a bunch of attention to this case. Any disclosure is hunted and would be hot in forums and medias. Wait what happens next!!!
Microsoft has run an one-year campaign of encouraging Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users to install free Windows 10, which expired on July 29th. Al Khafaji, Ahmad Abudulreda and Robert Stahl were of the first people to bring a suit against Microsoft at the Federal court over this issue. (Before them, there was a travel agent in California who was awarded $10,000 for recognition of damage that unexpected Windows 10 upgrade caused to her business).
They claimed that "Microsoft engaged in a reckless and negligent premise with catastrophic consequences for some of Defendant's customers whose devices were rendered useless and incapable of normal recovery operations. Plaintiffs were coerced into adopting Windows 10 or had Windows 10 installed in various unintentional manners with subsequent damage to their computers after which Plaintiffs sustained unnecessary and avoidable stress, confusion, loss of time and significant monetary damage all at the hands of Defendant."
It is the fact that Microsoft has been carrying out unpredictable processes that they never used for former Windows versions, in order to expedite the acceptance of Windows 10 installation. Those includes automatic download Windows 10 on supported Pcs and automatic updates without approvals of users.
The red “X” on the right top of the pop-up is just a trap created by Microsoft. Instead of being canceled (as the red “X” always means”), the installation will be automatically accepted. Moreover, this kind of pop-up was so annoying that afterwards, Microsoft had to change the way that it displays. Most users had to suffer from this forced free item without knowledge about how to cancel or refuse the upgrade process. This should be the most intolerable thing that Microsoft has done to consumers.
Al Khafaji, Ahmad Abudulreda and Robert Stahl said that they did not expect this type of “free” upgrade. They even stated that this campaign is a good example of Microsoft's monopoly. They explained that by widely spreading Windows, Microsoft meant to make users depend on their products.
Facing with another lawsuit, Microsoft said that they would prevail. They showed confidence to win and stated that plaintiff's accusation was of no merit.
People around the world are paying a bunch of attention to this case. Any disclosure is hunted and would be hot in forums and medias. Wait what happens next!!!