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Title: Microsoft Sued Over Plans to Discontinue Windows 10 Support

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/10/02272...

xA California man sued Microsoft Thursday over its plan to stop supporting
Windows 10 on October 14th, reports Courthouse News Though Windows 11 was
launched nearly four years ago, many of its billion or so worldwide users are
clinging to the decade-old Windows 10... According to StatCounter, nearly 43%
of Windows users still use the old version on their desktop computers....
"With only three months until support ends for Windows 10, it is likely that
many millions of users will not buy new devices or pay for extended support,"
Klein writes in his complaint. "These users - some of whom are businesses
storing sensitive consumer data - will be at a heightened risk of a
cyberattack or other data security incident, a reality of which Microsoft is
well aware...." According to one market analyst writing in 2023, Microsoft's
shift away from Windows 10 will lead millions of customers to buy new devices
and thrown out their old ones, consigning as many as 240 million PCs to the
landfill.... Klein is asking a judge to order Microsoft to continue
supporting Windows 10 without additional charge, until the number of devices
running the older operating system falls bellow 10% of total Windows users.
He says nothing about any money he seeking for himself, though it does ask
for attorneys' fees. Microsoft did not respond to an email requesting a
comment. The complaint also requests an order requiring Microsoft's
advertising "to disclose clearly and prominently the approximate end-of-
support date for the Windows operating system purchased with the device at
the time of purchase" or at least "disclose that support is only guaranteed
for a certain delineated period of time without additional cost, and to
disclose the potential consequences of such end-of-support for device
security and functionality."

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