Because in the USA, private individuals don’t have meaningful access to the legal system. Realistically, the best you could possibly hope for in a case like this would be a settlement in a class action where every Windows 10 user who’s willing to jump through a bunch of hoops ends up with a seven dollar check in half a decade.
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db2@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Remember, they said Windows 10 was the last version you’d need. The last version.
In a country full of people that get a chub at the thought of litigation why hasn’t this angle been pursued?
daikiki@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
That was never actually an official statement. It was an offhand comment by some staffer that didn’t carry any legal weight nor accurately describe the internal trajectory for Windows in any way. As much as we like to poke fun at it regardless.
Madrigal@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It was the last version I needed. Six months gaming on Linux and I haven’t looked back.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
That was always a dumb statement. Microsoft had two places to go from there. Either iterate and keep the name like Mac OS X was doing (10, 10.1, 10.2 and so on) or go to 11… like macOS also did (after a while).
They were never gonna release a version of Windows called Windows 10 and never update it or improve upon it (as they see it).
db2@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
They had iterations already, like 22h2 or whatever.
frongt@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
They used to be called service packs.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
Major builds. They used to be YYMM (from 1507 to 2004), and changed to half a year at the end - 22H2 is the Windows 10 build for the second half of 2022.
In total, there were fourteen of these, with 22H2 being the final one.
MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
Windows 10 is definitely the last version of Windows I’ll run on my own machines.
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 13 hours ago
I think it will be the last one I run as well. I’ve always gotten grumpy with updating my OS since XP. I skipped Vista and 8 entirely. So I went XP > 7 > 10. I tried out Cachy OS and it works great. Did I have to go in the terminal at times? Absolutely but I have to go into the command line in windows sometimes too. Only thing keeping me in Windows at the moment is some windows only software and hardware drivers.