{"id":3531,"date":"2017-08-22T00:54:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T22:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2020-09-15T23:33:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T21:33:48","slug":"forced-windows-10-upgrades-microsoft-signed-a-waiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/08\/22\/forced-windows-10-upgrades-microsoft-signed-a-waiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced Windows 10 Upgrades: Microsoft signed a waiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/win102.jpg\" width=\"58\" align=\"left\" height=\"58\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/21\/windows-10-gratis-upgrade-unterlassungserklrung-wirksam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]Success for German consumer rights advocates against Microsoft, which signed a waiver (cease and desist) not to download install files for a new operating system without user's consensus. This was the consequence of Microsoft's attempt, to force Windows 10 upgrades to Windows 7\/8.1 systems from July 2015 up to July 2016.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl-vg03.met.vgwort.de\/na\/6612b320972145b48eccd7ab150d3091\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">Microsoft pushed Windows 10 aggressively on Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 user systems from July 29, 2015 till July 29, 2016. Many users are ending with a damaged system, and in some cases, Microsoft paid a kind of compensation for such damages. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Get Windows 10-Anzeige \" alt=\"Get Windows 10-Anzeige \" src=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/images\/uploaded\/2015\/12\/get-windows-10-dec2015.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>In Germany, consumer rights organization Verbraucherschutz Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg (BW) send Microsoft a cease and desist letter and requested an injunction, not to download install files for a new operating system on user systems without a user's consensus, which Microsoft refused to sign. <\/p>\n<p>The case went to German court and passed two instances. After a long time, where we seeing legal tricks from Microsoft's lawyers, the Oberlandesgericht M\u00fcnchen decides, that the case was entitled. The case went back to the first court for a final decision.<\/p>\n<p>Before this decision was made by a judge, Microsoft signed a waiver (criminal injunction) and hand it over to Verbraucherschutz Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. The waiver says (full German text <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170911050523\/https:\/\/www.verbraucherzentrale-bawue.de\/windows-update--microsoft-gibt-unterlassungserklaerung-ab-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Microsoft will not download install files for new operating systems to a user system's hard disk without a user's consent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Because the free Windows 10 upgrade offer (and Microsoft's methods to press this OS to Windows 7\/8.1 systems) ended on July 29, 2016, this waiver seems without a consequence. But the question I'm asking: Does Microsoft's feature-upgrades in combination with Windows 10 auto-update mechanism violates the cease and desist letter with the criminal injunction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Success for German consumer rights advocates against Microsoft, which signed a waiver (cease and desist) not to download install files for a new operating system without user's consensus. This was the consequence of Microsoft's attempt, to force Windows 10 upgrades &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/08\/22\/forced-windows-10-upgrades-microsoft-signed-a-waiver\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[981,65,76],"class_list":["post-3531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update","category-windows","tag-legal-actions","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}