Some Justice
But you have to sue: Payout of $10,000 for Windows 10 update
Microsoft has agreed to pay a Californian woman $10,000 (£7,500) after an automatic Windows 10 update left her computer unusable.
Teri Goldstein said her Windows 7 computer had automatically tried to update itself to Windows 10 without her permission.
She said the update had made her machine unstable, leaving her unable to use it to run her business.
Microsoft said it had dropped its appeal to save on legal costs.
It’s nice that someone was ‘made whole’, because a lot of people won’t be.
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This could well be one of the first of many. This will be a good thing. 🙂
Speaking of *Justice* in the IT World:
Oracle ordered to pay $3bn damages to HP
Oracle just can’t win a (dirty) trick! Awww… GOOD! LOL
Probably the only laugh I’ve had about our election:
Cartoon: Planet of Forbidden Prime Ministers
I voted *shrug*
A friend on Pinterest (who unfortunately lives in the land of Dorothy & Toto, though not by choice as Hubby is stationed there) sent me this Youtube video link (The best part starts about 3 min’s in, but the first few minutes are worth watching):
Will McAvoy decides to take a stand & explains why America is NOT the greatest country in the world, anymore.
He was spot on.
Perhaps I should mention, for the record, that yes… I do know that Will McAvoy is a fictional character (played by Jeff Daniels), that’s not the point. 🙂
The wheels came off when people stopped wanting to work together for common goals. Hell, Jimmy Carter put the US on the road to reducing carbon emissions and making us energy independent and Reagan stopped the programs to waste the money on a military build up while the Soviet Union was collapsing, They keep electing Republicans and forgetting they always involve us in wars and break the economy.
Oracle will stall despite having essentially admitted it broke its contract. Well, at least it is on record as being worthless again.
Oracle’s argument was that Intel had quit making Itanium processors, and that signalled the end of the contract to support the Oracle database on Itanium. Unfortunately, that’s not how the contract read….
Oracle has never really understood that they have hold up their end of the bargain…