A California woman has won $10,000 from Microsoft after a sneaky Windows 10 update wrecked the computer she used to run her business. Now she's urging everyone to follow suit and "fight back."
Teri Goldstein – who manages a travel agency in Sausalito, just north of San Francisco – told The Register she landed the compensation by taking Microsoft to a small claims court.
Your Honor, for upgrade information press "1" ...Rather than pursue a regular lawsuit, she chose the smaller court because it was better suited to sorting out consumer complaints. Crucially, it meant Microsoft couldn't send one of its top-gun lawyers – or any lawyer in fact: small claims courts are informal and attorneys are generally not allowed. Instead, Redmond-based Microsoft had to send a consumer complaints rep to argue its case.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer company.
3 comments:
Just discovered windows 10 doen't come with a DVD Player ( Windows Media Player )
.......... But they will gladly add it in for a mere $15.00 WTF
She could buy a couple of top-of-the-line MacBook Pros with the AppleCare extended warranty with that money.
Ohhh, math time.
If we just talk about windows 8 - back in 2014 MS claimed over 200 million licences sold.
At 10K per
200,000,000 that's 2 trillion bucks (unless I counted my zero's wrong) Ouch. That's leaving out the folks on win7 (like me) - and you probably can't even upgrade XP - maybe Vista.
So what if 5% of the people affected filed suit? $100B ouch again.
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