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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by eropple on Monday June 27, 2016 @03:49PM (#11988939)
> Because we paid for their OS and expect it to be supported ?

The upgrade is free. You are being supported. You can choose not to upgrade (and I think you're wrong, but it is your choice). What I don't understand the mindset behind "no, I won't upgrade, but I want a bunch of feature-change patches without making me upgrade" (as with the assertion that the auto-restart logic could/should be changed for Windows 7, not Windows 8).

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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by sametmax on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @12:20PM (#11995005)
No, forcing a version change using the excuse of security is not being supported. Ubuntu has security patches for 5 years and it's free. I pay for windows, give me my security patches.
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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by qbrass on Monday June 27, 2016 @04:28PM (#11989213)
Because it's a problem that should have been fixed 15 years ago.
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