Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win...
by acqq on Monday June 27, 2016 @12:23PM
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Exactly, I have two notebooks on which Windows 10 Update claimed "everything's OK" and one is completely unusable under Windows 10 because the WiFi card driver is unsupported by Intel and crashes the whole system, and another is unusable because the touchpad doesn't work anymore.
On the former, even rolling back to Windows 7 turned bad, as all tasks (created by Microsoft, not by me) became somehow invalid.
Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win...
by wvenable on Monday June 27, 2016 @12:07PM
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I had this exact problem as well. I had to download the old version of the driver just to uninstall it and then I installed the latest Windows 10 driver. Problem solved. But it was the one thing that went wrong with it.
Which would be nice, if it worked 100%. But it doesn't, so that's a problem for non-technical users. In fact, the Win10 upgrade on my Win 8.1 laptop "helpfully" rolled-back the touchpad driver from the latest driver designed for Win 8.1 -- which works fine with Win 10 -- to the original Win 8 driver, which doesn't function at all under Win 10. Now, I'm not non-technical user, and it was straightforward for me to hunt down the installed version of the touchpad driver, realize the problem, go to the manufacturer's website and download the latest Win 8.1 version, install it, and go on with life. And I had an external BT mouse which didn't have a driver problem to use while I was doing that, and enough proficiency that I could have probably done what I needed to do with the keyboard anyway. But, had I been a nontechnical user...