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Microsoft recalling 2 million Surface power chargers following 61 complaints

article published on 3 February, 2016

Microsoft has announced it will be recalling 2 million Surface chargers after it received 56 complaints of overheating or fire and an additional 5 complaints of electric shocks. The recall was initially announced last month but the amount of complaints and the scope of the recall were unknown. Affected chargers were sold before March 2015 in North America and before July 2015 for everywhere else. ... [ read the full article ]

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hearme0
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_ 		4. February 2016 @ 17:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is forgivable plain and simple!

In fact, if I was a head decision-maker at MS, I'd tell these 56 people to GFY.

That failure rate is less than a qrtr percent.

Only those 56 should get replacements.
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ddp
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_ 		4. February 2016 @ 20:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
then why did gm get into deep doodoo with congress over the faulty switches?
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bhetrick
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_ 		8. February 2016 @ 11:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by hearme0:
 In fact, if I was a head decision-maker at MS, I'd tell these 56 people to GFY.
So when one of those chargers fails, starts a fire, burns down a house and kills a family of 4, you'll be sleeping comfortably that night because you told them to "go f**k themselves"?

Instead of replacing a faulty electrical component when you ALREADY KNEW was in fact faulty?







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