Microsoft is still being sued over "damaging" Windows 10 upgrades

[wiyosaya]

The way I see it, it is up to M$ to make sure that they do not break anything. If they cannot guarantee that they have not broken anything in the process of making things better, then I choose not to update.

 

[Igrecman]

I've had problems too with some Ubuntu updates, it seems it hates my Nvidia GPU. But M$ has a thousand times more resources than the ordinary tech savvy people running the Linux updates. Although it's probably a very complicated task to make something work for the thousands of different hardware configurations in the wild. It can badly slow down the industry if they don't stop supporting aging hardware when the time has come.

 

[Sum Guy]

I got burned by the update. I upgraded and lost all my data, and yet the patch was successful. File folder Windows old was empty. I tried every trick in the book including restore partition with active works, after all other options failed. Still have the hard drive in hopes to fix it one day. By then none of the data will matter, but it's a mystery I want to solve.

 

[TheBigT42]

If apple products weren't so stupid expensive and linux had gaming support Microsoft would be irrelevant now. Almost everything behind the scenes in the enterprise market is linux/Unix based. Its really only the office users who "need" windows, but MS office runs in linux just fine so there isn't anything stopping companies from using Linux. They could hire a team of linux support staff with the money they'd save on licensing fees and probably still have money left over.


If MS keeps pulling crap like this alongside user friendly linux distros like Mint(sorry Ubuntu fans, but it sucks) they could very well make themselves irrelevant in a decade or so.

Here's to hoping steam OS makes linux gaming a reality. And for the love of God can developers please stop using Windows on APIs like DirectX?

Add to the lack of gaming support to Linux, a lack of support for engineering industry in general (I.e. CAD/CAE, FEM, etc) ... I don't forsee any change soon ...

Read the first line of his comment. "and linux had gaming support Microsoft would be irrelevant now"

 

[TheBigT42]

I got burned by the update. I upgraded and lost all my data, and yet the patch was successful. File folder Windows old was empty. I tried every trick in the book including restore partition with active works, after all other options failed. Still have the hard drive in hopes to fix it one day. By then none of the data will matter, but it's a mystery I want to solve.

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[Sum Guy]

Invest in Crash Plan

It was only 3 weeks since last backup so I did not lose too much. I just want to recover it just because it is one the rare occasions where I failed to recover.

 

[DelJo63]

Here's to hoping steam OS makes linux gaming a reality. And for the love of God can developers please stop using Windows APIs like DirectX?

:giggle: They would if they knew anything else! :giggle: