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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by NamTaf on Monday June 27, 2016 @08:37PM (#11990671)
Except MS is the one who cops the blame, the negative PR and the reputation of being insecure when malware runs rife across old Windows systems that weren't patched for years.

There's literally no way they can win this. If they force updates they're evil for rebooting PCs. If they don't, users don't update because it's always inconvenient and then they blame MS on malware.

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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:48PM (#11996938)
They could design an OS that doesn't require a full reboot after every piddling little update.

Windows has actually gotten better at this over the years, but it's still nowhere near every other OS in the world.

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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by Chris2048 on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @05:52AM (#11992530)
> Except MS is the one who cops the blame

When?

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