Windows 10 Destroyed Hard Drives And Deleted Data, Claims Lawsuit

The free install of W10 was a bug riddle piece of shit I won't deny. It kept disabling my speakers when I'd plug in headphones and wouldn't turn them back on till after I uninstalled and reinstalled the sound driver. For awhile it didn't recognize my printer. When I first installed it, it deleted my main profile with all my files and left me the useless one I had set up to try the password feature of windows. They've ironed out most of the bugs accept for one. When I plug in my headphones any video be it youtube or a dvd will suddenly have its audio sped up

OH what a coincidence, my car has finished fuel, I'm sure that's because I installed Win10 2 years ago, I will sue them, those bastards.

Win10 burnt my toast and made my fridge explode .. I wan't $15,000,000.00 !!

This has to be news from MericaLand !! Its someone else's fault that your HD was on the way out and couldn't handle an installation ??

I think physical damage is close to impossible. The problem here is the upgrade, never upgrade an OS, install from scratch. It is a lot more work but you will be on that system for years, it deserves a little dedication.

Don't know about physical damage to computers, but it has definitely cost companies millions. $5 million is much too low to ask for, if you ask me.

Idiots. If your hard drive fails while installing Windows 10, it was on its way out anyway. It's called coincidence that it happened to fail while Windows 10 was installing. So the lady whose hard drive failed is SOL. As far as the other people go, they accepted the installation and the terms and conditions for that installation. Good luck with that one guys. I've installed Windows 10 on hundreds of systems. Never lost a single file or had damage to any hardware.

Also, back up your sh1t.

"It added that customers had the option to refuse the upgrade, as well 31 days to roll back to their old operating system after accepting the update."

You can't really roll back hardware being damaged, or if data is deleted, I don't think it rolls back that, either. It also pestered you every day to update unless you went into the registry and changed some things, which made it a very annoying thing.

Hell, I LIKE Windows 10 and I think they're in the wrong here.

I've been a Microsoft fanboy since DOS. (with the exception of a couple of Operating Systems here and there)

IMO, what Microsoft did with Windows 10 being a forced Windows Update was flat out wrong.

NOBODY in the "real world" does an upgrade to people's hardware without asking their permission, and making sure they have the compatible hardware first. That's just common sense.

I've used Windows 10. I'm not a fan, and I've blocked the updates. However, I've also had a lot of p***ed off people calling me last summer telling me they didn't want Win10, or something with the update broke their machine.

I know that Microsoft wants to stay at 10 forever, but I think at some point they are gonna break and go back to traditional OS releases. Why? Simple, it's too confusing for the average person to know what hardware requirements they need if Microsoft makes a big update change (like say the UI). Microsoft is just asking for more and more lawsuits like this going down this road. Even techs are upset not knowing "where in 10" they need to roll back to when fixing PCs.

^ You can get away with doing that stuff with say phones, because people get bored with their phones and want something new, but you can't use that same model with say PC's and laptops... JMO

so what ? complainers can install linux when they are unhappy with windows.. lol

A lot of problems with upgrading is that noone cares enough to make a proper backup of their files at regular intervals, because they all think: "My device works fine now, it will work fine afterwards too".

With millions of possible hardware configurations, and quadrillions of possible software combinations installed and set up to work in a specific way, upgrading software can and will cause trouble to an outlier. While Microsoft is responsible for pushing software that isn't 100% foolproof, the end user is also responsible for not taking precautions with their personal data.

And as a user who uses Windows only and only because it is pretty much required for gaming, after 1,5 years of using Win10, I simply can't stand Win7 now. It feels archaic and slow.

Running never10 was the best decision I ever made.

MS practically forced this upgrade on people (and in some cases flat out did) so if it caused these people problems MS is responsible. I would remove any plaintiffs that willingly upgraded though as there was almost certainly something in the agreement that said MS wasn't responsible for issues caused by the upgrade. That could cause them problems in court.

I lost 2 computers to windows 10 upgrade.

Yeah Windows 7 did a lot of that too.

Shit happens. Make a backup.

My sister's laptop basically forced Win10 on her as one of the automatic system updates. After it had done it a number of the apps she had on there wouldn't work anymore afterwards. And of course it was months later when she finally told me about it because she had been so occupied with her job, and by then she couldn't revert back to the previous version. She says she hates it and liked the Windows 8 UI. I have no clue how she could like that setup, I couldn't even do anything in it when I had tried it before. To each their own I guess.

Huh. This is a thing? Really? Win 10 sucks for many reasons, but I've never heard of this. Well, Win 7 and 8.1 will still be supported for a few more years.

Microsoft was way too aggressive in pushing everyone to Windows 10. Turned off many. Though how many were mad enough to go buy Apple computers... I don't know. Probably so small that in the end Microsoft wins again. :-(

Windows 10 fucked up my work computers too. Nothing in regards to data loss, we back up via dropbox and the like. But it still screwed up our PCs, things went haywire for a while. It seems they're back to normal now.