Not everyone agrees with Microsoft’s decision to end Windows 10 care next October. In the United States, a recent complaint has even been filed on the subject.
« Windows 11 is extremely unpopular and, if it was not for planned obsolescence tactics, very many users would simply not pass on Windows 11». Lawrence Klein does not spare her blows. As revealed The Registerthis resident of California decided to release the big means in the end of the management of Windows 10 by simply attacking Microsoft in justice.
While the operating system (technically) will stop receiving updates from October 14, this complaint seeks to force Redmond to offer several additional years of software care.
Forcing and abuse of dominant position
According to the declaration presented to the Californian Court of Justice, Microsoft should have the obligation to continue to provide updates for Windows 10 “Until the number of devices operating under this operating system drops below 10 % of the total number of Windows users.»Currently, Windows 10 still concentrates 43 % of the total Windows users and users.
To support her argument, Lawrence Klein uses several different tactics. He first believes that the end of Windows 10 is premature in view of Microsoft’s history. Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 were all retired 8 years after the release of their successor against 4 years for Windows 7. “In addition, whenever Microsoft has announced that it would cease the management of an operating system, the number of active users had decreased and represented only a low percentage of the overall total operating systems on the market», Point the document.
The complaint also argues that “Microsoft’s strategy is to use its dominant position in the operating systems market to reach a dominant position in the generative AI market.By making Windows 10 obsolete and pushing its customers and customers to Windows 11, Microsoft would therefore be guilty of abuse of dominant position, according to Klein.
A completely legitimate issue
If the fight of a single inhabitant against the Béhémoth Microsoft can lend to smile, the problem of Windows 10 software monitoring is very real. It is estimated that 240 million PCs, at least, are not eligible for update and could therefore arrive in landfills, creating a mountain of new electronic waste.
In addition, one of the solutions proposed by Microsoft is stupidly to buy a compatible PC and recycle the old. If this only responds very partially to the ecological issues posed, this advice also ignores economic issues. Not everyone has the means to redeem themselves a new PC, especially when the current one still works perfectly.
To go further
What if the solution at the end of Windows 10 was to go to Linux?
Not sure that the complaint of Lawrence Klein manages to move Microsoft from his positions, but the debate is legitimate.
