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Judge tosses out Windows XP downgrading suit

article published on 2 March, 2010

In February 2009, LA resident Emma Alvarado filed a lawsuit against Microsoft accusing the software giant of profiting from consumers downgrading from Windows Vista back to XP. Alvarado's complaint says Microsoft forced customers to first purchase the new operating system, before they could downgrade to the operating system they really wanted, XP. The case was tossed out this week. ... [ read the full article ]

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jony218
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_ 		2. March 2010 @ 20:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well actually going from Vista to XP is considered an upgrade, not a downgrade. It should have been throwned out on that technically.
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bobiroc
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_ 		2. March 2010 @ 20:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Good. It was this person's choice to downgrade to Vista and she could have chose an OEM that didn't charge. My organization have purchased over a 1000 new systems since Vista's release and all of them have had Vista to XP Downgrade free of Charge. In fact we have purchased a few systems this year that we downgraded from Win7 to XP for free. Not because Vista or Win7 are bad OSes, we just have not completed all the background preparation and implemented any training for the new OSes yet. Unless my boss finds some BS way to stop it we will be moving to Win7 next school year when it starts in August.
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scum101
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_ 		2. March 2010 @ 21:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
who needs excuses to reject this lock in garbage? http://en.windows7sins.org/
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bobiroc
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_ 		2. March 2010 @ 22:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by scum101:
 who needs excuses to reject this lock in garbage? http://en.windows7sins.org/


What Crap
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TBandit
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_ 		3. March 2010 @ 01:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by scum101:
 who needs excuses to reject this lock in garbage? http://en.windows7sins.org/


Too much reading just needed to say they don't support microsoft.
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patrick_
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_ 		3. March 2010 @ 08:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by scum101:
 who needs excuses to reject this lock in garbage? http://en.windows7sins.org/

againts propietary software?? So they are just a bunch of comunist. Why the hell do programmers have to work for free? And those loosers ask money to send letters?

Back on topic, Alvarado and her lawyer should go back to school. To sue the wrong company is really stupid.
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Mez
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_ 		4. March 2010 @ 12:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I see nothing against free or paid for software. What I would love is a clean not bloated OS. Even with XP it is a not easy to see what gets loaded when in the start up procedure.
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