“Lawrence Klein feels strongly enough that Microsoft is out of order in bringing the shutters down on Windows 10 in just a couple of months that he has fired up a lawsuit against the company.”
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Windows 10 reaches its End of Life in October 2025, and a California resident is particularly disgruntled about this looming deadline.
He isn’t alone, of course, but Lawrence Klein feels strongly enough that Microsoft is out of order in bringing the shutters down on Windows 10 in just a couple of months that he has fired up a lawsuit against the company.
As The Register reports, Klein has accused Microsoft of violating consumer legal code and business code (including false advertising law) by winding up support for Windows 10 too early, in his opinion.
The crux of the argument is that too many people remain on Windows 10 for the operating system to have support pulled (there are nuances here, which I’ll come back to). And that some 240 million devices don’t meet the hardware requirements to upgrade to Windows 11 – due to Microsoft setting those PC specifications at an unreasonable level – and the potential e-waste nightmare that could prompt.
In short, the upgrades required for Windows 11 – including TPM 2.0 security, as well as ruling out some surprisingly recent processors – aren’t justified.
Furthermore, Klein argues that this upgrade timeline is all part of Microsoft’s drive to push folks to use its Copilot AI with Windows 11, in a broader push to get more adoption for Copilot+ PCs – in other words, to buy new machines and discard old Windows 10 hardware (and again, we’re back to that e-waste issue).
You can read the lawsuit in its entirety (it’s a PDF) here, but that’s the gist, and Klein argues that Microsoft should postpone killing off Windows 10 and wait until far fewer people are using the older operating system.
As the suit states: “[The] Plaintiff seeks injunctive relief requiring Microsoft to continue providing support for Windows 10 without additional fees or conditions until the number of devices running the operating system falls below a reasonable threshold, thereby ensuring that consumers and businesses are not unfairly pressured into unnecessary expenditures and cybersecurity risks [of running a Windows 10 PC without security updates].”
Is Klein justified in this lawsuit? In some respects, I think so, and while I don’t imagine for a minute that this legal action will go anywhere in terms of the outcome of the suit itself, I’ve a feeling it could come into play, and be important, indirectly.
What do I mean by that exactly? Well, let’s dive into the thinking behind Klein’s lawsuit, and the key reasons why it might force Microsoft to sit up and take notice.
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