The plaintiff says that Microsoft’s tactic of “forced obsolescence” is an “attempt to monopolize the generative AI market.”
Case file: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/klein-v-microsoft-san-diego-complaint.pdf
The plaintiff says that Microsoft’s tactic of “forced obsolescence” is an “attempt to monopolize the generative AI market.”
Case file: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/klein-v-microsoft-san-diego-complaint.pdf
Yup, you could skip Vista by using XP until windows 7, and you could skip windows 8 by sticking with windows 7 until 10 came out.
Now they’re forcing people to get every version even if they put out a shit version of windows.
Also computers aren’t ramping up in hardware performance like they used to so a lot of people who would buy a new computer every so often and the new one would just come with a new version of windows… they aren’t doing that any more.
Also there’s tarrifs, inflation, and a lot of people just can’t afford a new computer. So this is a perfect storm of windows suckiness.