Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Windows 10 upgrade

Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by TeMPOraL on Monday June 27, 2016 @05:38PM (#11989716)

I experience that constantly on any laptop I use because I pretty much never turn them off - they go to sleep mode when not used. Every now and then I find the laptop running with a clean desktop after logging in - because it decided to reboot and install updates somewhen during the night.

I've been an enemy of automated updates ever since, many years ago, I went to the kitchen to boil the water for a tea, and there suddenly I heard the PC speaker beeping - oh, Windows decided to count down from "5 minutes" and reboot.

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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by newjersey on Monday June 27, 2016 @10:43PM (#11991138)

I think automated updates are fine but require user's intervention to restart. Don't restart automatically on their behalf.

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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by gpvos on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @02:55AM (#11991954)

They are not fine. For example, Outlook (on my work PC) tends to become non-functional when an update is pending.

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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by newjersey on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @07:00AM (#11992730)

That's just P* poor quality and lack of care at Microsoft. When I think of automatic updates, I am thinking about automatic security updates on Ubuntu server. I'm sure canonical will screw things up at some point as well though.

I guess it is easy and tempting to say "just turn it off and on again" on consumer electronics and end user computers. :/

Why would an application become non-functional when an update is pending? Perhaps a critical security vulnerability?

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