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Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 (lifehacker.com)

submitted 3 days ago by faizalr@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Microsoft is being sued by a man who feels cheated by the current plans to sunset Windows 10. He makes some good points, but I doubt he'll win.

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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 222 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

He'd probably have an easier time with the lawsuit if instead of appealing to upgrade logic, he just went with, I don't know...

THE TIME MICROSOFT PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED WINDOWS 10 WOULD BE THE LAST NUMBERED VERSION AND THAT THEY'D NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE OS VERSION AGAIN.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32658340

Pepperidge Farm remembers, Microsoft scum.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

And that's why if you open the command line in Windows 11 you will read:

10.0.26200.5742

Et voilà!

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

To be fair, win 11 is more or less win 10 just with a shittier UI and even more intrusive bullshit.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Nixon wasn’t speaking authoritatively there, I believe both he and M$ clarified that. And the “correlating” announcement was more “we will be continuously updating windows 10” unlike the assumed by many people to mean “perpetually” which is just silly.

You’re telling me you expected windows 10 to remain forever the last Windows version? Maybe if they decided to rename the OS moving forward.

I suppose you could take the stance of it just becoming versioned in the same way Linux distros are, but then you just get left being on an old version of Windows 10.

[–] null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 3 points 1 day ago

Son of a bitch, your profile pic got me blowing on my screen.

Nice work.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

No, I didn't expect that, which is why it was stupid to say it in the first place. You can't turn this around and put it on the customer to have to read between the lines what the business is trying to actually say. How about, the multi-billion dollar company that has entire buildings full of lawyers doesn't make claims that it can't back up?

I'm not saying it's right to expect that the Windows operating system was never going to have to have a paid upgrade again, but it was also stupid and wrong to make the claim that it wouldn't. That's on them. Nobody held a gun to their head and told them to lie to their customers and then later claim they didn't mean it. And furthermore, why give them the benefit of the doubt? You think if you were in trouble because of something stupid you said, Microsoft is going to come to your aid? Is it being fair? To a company that wouldn't care if they accidentally bankrupted you with a forced update?

And sure, they can "clarify"all they want that he didn't mean the words that he said precisely and accurately in unambiguous English. It doesn't change the fact that he's not some random employee. He is an executive. He knows, and everyone else should know as well, that he speaks as a representative of the company. Otherwise what's to keep them from lying through their teeth about whatever features they want? "It prints free money! It'll cure all your diseases! No, no.. he didn't mean that."

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Again, an employee speaking off the cuff in an unofficial way isn’t “the company making claims.”

If this was the janitorial staff, would you have taken them at their word? An intern who waddled on stage? Granted Nixon had a little more authority within the company than either of those individuals, but he was by no means in a position that anyone paying attention would take his word on this particular statement.

The issue here is that the media took this “random” employees word as gospel and without getting clarification ran with dozens of “ThiS Is tHe lASt vErSIoN oF wINdOwS!” clickbait articles. All fact checking thrown out the window, no proper follow up. They just spun an entire story out of his off the cuff statement.

Edit: It should be clarified: Nixon wasn’t an executive. He was a software developer. I don’t believe he was even a “senior software developer” at the time.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“perpetually” which is just silly.

That's basically how Linux works, especially if you use a rolling release distro like Arch, openSUSE Tumbleweed, or Fedora Silverblue.

Honestly, if Windows followed a similar policy, I think people would be less interested in alternatives. Perhaps charge for access to new features, drop support for older hardware, etc, but let people keep using it if they like it.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

There’s nothing that would change here other than the name of what’s installed. People would still be unable to update to the new version.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Because MS went back on their promise that Win10 would be the last, you can no longer trust anything they say.