Microsoft signs a waiver

Skybird · 08-22-17, 10:47 AM

http://borncity.com/win/2017/08/22/f...gned-a-waiver/

After long battle sfacing legal defeat at German courts, Microsoft signs a waiver to no more install W10 against the will of system owners.

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Because the free Windows 10 upgrade offer (and Microsoft’s methods to press this OS to Windows 7/8.1 systems) ended on July 29, 2016, this waiver seems without a consequence. But the question I’m asking: Does Microsoft’s feature-upgrades in combination with Windows 10 auto-update mechanism violates the cease and desist letter with the criminal injunction?

This enforced updates download imposition has to come to an end - yesterday. System owners already have suffered too many damages from enforced updates that were broken, damaged stuff, and sometimes caused more drama than relief. The whole philosophy stinks to heaven. And they want to do this with half of their Windows top tech staff having gone voluntarily or gotten fired, being replaced with technology-incompetent marketing managers who sell the increased deficits and technical problems as "services" and "features".

Catfish · 08-23-17, 08:57 AM

What about those who were already forced?

I guess they get a big refund, like the Diesel owners

Skybird · 08-23-17, 10:07 AM

Obviously this is too little, too late, the quesiton however was anyway a different one: will this be a legal precedent to stop enforcing updates for W10 Home owners who cannot even easily delay them? Currently Microsoft forces its garbage updates and broken stuff onto millions of machines without granting the users the right to say "No, I do not want to be your beta testers, keep your broken garbage stuff yourself, come back when you have ironed out the problems."

The answer most likely is no.

Rockin Robbins · 08-23-17, 12:24 PM

I can only hope that this will snowball and Europe, with it's newly rediscovered sense of right and wrong, will just use this as the go-ahead to pressure Microsoft to the realization that free enterprise is the voluntary (by BOTH parties), mutually advantageous exchange of money for product and/or services. Corporations are not permitted to exist to prey upon their customers. They are to SERVE them.

Forget it. That could never happen.

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08-23-17, 10:07 AM	#3
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,602 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Obviously this is too little, too late, the quesiton however was anyway a different one: will this be a legal precedent to stop enforcing updates for W10 Home owners who cannot even easily delay them? Currently Microsoft forces its garbage updates and broken stuff onto millions of machines without granting the users the right to say "No, I do not want to be your beta testers, keep your broken garbage stuff yourself, come back when you have ironed out the problems." The answer most likely is no. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

08-23-17, 12:24 PM	#4
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	I can only hope that this will snowball and Europe, with it's newly rediscovered sense of right and wrong, will just use this as the go-ahead to pressure Microsoft to the realization that free enterprise is the voluntary (by BOTH parties), mutually advantageous exchange of money for product and/or services. Corporations are not permitted to exist to prey upon their customers. They are to SERVE them. Forget it. That could never happen. __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS