Or Rick, we need a good lawyer who can find loop holes in the contract that says we can't have a lawsuit against Microsoft. If they are selling shoddy products they should be liable for the damage they do. Cars have recalls, why not Microsoft recalls? lol.
Class Action Lawsuit
I installed Windows 8.1 Preview some time ago (8.1 sucked), and later found out that upgrading to Windows 8.1 RT would force me to re-install everything. I wasn't okay with this, so I just decided to keep Windows 8.1 Preview (even if, understandably, support would later be cut); however, now it seems Microsoft made the crazy decision to FORCE everyone to upgrade BY RESTARTING THEIR PC EVERY 2 HOURS! WTH???? Anyway, so now they are literally forcing me to re-install everything, but what is worse is I can't even upgrade! The Windows store isn't working properly, and the download never finishes. The computer RESTARTS before it has a chance to finish (it's over 3GB), which apparently causes the download to restart (THE ONE TIME IT APPEARED TO BE WORKING).
Anyway, I don't think this type of behavior from Microsoft would stand up in court (Windows could seriously be classified as MALWARE at this point), so if anyone is connected to some good lawyers, I think this would make for a great class action lawsuit...
BTW, I seem to remember a virus that would restart computers too...
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2017-01-13T00:39:52+00:00 2017 and there is no end to the issues that Microsoft keeps putting out. I can't even use my laptop and I got it in late October of 2016. Every time I use it there are constant lags and I'm discovering there are missing tools. $450.00 gone to waste. IS THERE A CLASS ACTION? I NEED TO JOIN! Absolute rubbish products and service.
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2014-11-12T02:29:11+00:00 That's how previews have worked for 24 years now. Nothing new. Plus you agreed to it when you first got the preview. Failure to read isn't a reason to sue.
Mr. Keene, if you believe that Window 8.0 or 8.1 is a consumer ready product then I would really question your opinion especially being an MS-MVP. Failure to read a Microsoft disclaimer is not a good excuse for the failure that the software is. Bugs can usually be adjusted with a workaround but when Microsoft level II engineers spent 6 hours logged onto my high speed HP Envy 17t and couldn't fix it then the bugs are much bigger than they appear and challenge the qualifications for a consumer ready software product. When software is SOLD it also carries an "implied functionality" within its "license agreement". Unfortunately we are all finding that MS spent most of their time with the lawyers writing license agreement loopholes than they did writing functioning software for the 8.1 OS.
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2014-09-08T02:50:30+00:00 I have a 4 month old HP Envy 17t fast laptop machine. Moved from a functioning system 7 with PC Mover Pro to 8.1 which is crashing every 30 days or more. MS has rebuilt my horror show 3 times, I can’t take anymore. OS 8.1 NEEDS a class action suit. I also purchased an additional $250.00 Microsoft extended contract for unlimited Windows support for a year.
I sent the following questions as they send me directly to their level II support "team"? They gave me two email support contacts and NOW THEY ARE NO LONGER RESPONDING TO MY EMAILS.
MS level II new questions for resolution on my Microsoft 8.1 OS
- When I logon as administrator, why does it ask that I must have administrator permissions to make application system changes?
- Why does 8.1 keep asking me to verify my account with a CODE? I have 5 Outlook email accounts. Does it screen out incoming mail if it does not get a code update?
- All my Outlook mail accounts are also located on my old backup laptop. Some mail that gets populated to that computer does NOT also populate to my new Outlook accounts on my HP ENVY 8.1 machine?
- Vishwa Srivastava did a default.migrated new USER profile on my machine which rendered my original user profile useless. This new profile uses the directory name, \users \ Microossoft\Documents, etc. How can this USER root NAME be changed?
- I have an always connected WD MyBook 500GB Recovery drive. Every day 8.1 tells me to reconnect the File History drive which is connected, why is it not seeing it? Apparently 8.1 reformats this drive as one directory ONLY for its 32 GB of Recovery data only? Why prevent other data from being stored to this drive?
- I have spent considerable time the past 3 weeks rebuilding this machine. Seemingly the majority of my Apps are working including a couple hours re-establishing my Kindle books.
- I have today once again attempted to run Acrobat 11 and MS Expression Web-4. BOTH CONTINUE TO CRASH.
I am debating moving this machine back to Windows 7. I would like to know theTRUTH as to when MS will resolve its 8.1 problems or issue a 7 START based 9.0 OS option? My work does not live to “operate an operating system”.
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2014-06-01T07:27:53+00:00 I too am the proud (sarcasm intended) user of Windows Malware 8.1. The agreement we all acknowledged is we as consumers cannot sue for their faulty software. I am waiting for the day someone would challenge that agreement in court. One day a Judge will be operating Windows 8.1 and s(he) will be pissed off to overrule that caveat. Forcing Microsoft to fix what they done to us. America trusted Microsoft to develop software for our computers and just as it becomes operable (Windows XP) Microsoft discontinues it.