A lone California plaintiff has asked a San Diego court to stop Microsoft from cutting off free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a lawsuit that reframes a routine product‑lifecycle decision as a high‑stakes legal, security and policy dispute with potential ripple effects for...
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A Southern California resident has filed a state‑court lawsuit seeking to force Microsoft to continue issuing free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the company’s published end‑of‑support date of October 14, 2025, arguing that the scheduled cutoff is not just a routine lifecycle decision...
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A lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court seeks to stop Microsoft from ending routine, free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, arguing the company’s planned sunset amounts to forced obsolescence, materially increases cybersecurity risk for millions of users, and is timed to...
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A Southern California resident has asked a state court to stop Microsoft from turning off routine, free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a last‑minute legal bid that reframes a product‑lifecycle decision as a matter of consumer security, forced obsolescence, environmental...
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A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego has escalated what Microsoft framed as routine product lifecycle management into a public test of forced obsolescence, consumer protection, and whether a dominant platform can be legally compelled to continue issuing free security updates after an...
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A Southern California resident has filed suit in San Diego Superior Court asking a judge to block Microsoft’s planned October 14, 2025 end-of-support for Windows 10 and to force the company to continue providing free security updates until Windows 10’s install base falls below a...
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A Southern California resident has asked a state court to stop Microsoft from turning off routine, free security updates for Windows 10 this October, arguing the company’s planned October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support amounts to forced obsolescence that funnels users toward Windows 11 and Microsoft’s...
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A Southern California resident has asked a court to stop Microsoft from pulling the plug on Windows 10, arguing the company’s October 14, 2025 end-of-support decision is intended to coerce hardware upgrades and accelerate adoption of Windows 11’s AI features — a legal gambit that spotlights the...
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A California resident has filed a lawsuit seeking to force Microsoft to keep Windows 10 receiving free security updates, calling the company’s October 14, 2025 end-of-support decision a de facto coercion to buy new hardware and a move to entrench its AI strategy — a case that crystallizes...
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A Southern California resident has filed suit in San Diego Superior Court seeking to force Microsoft to continue providing free security updates for Windows 10 after the vendor’s announced October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support date, framing the move as forced obsolescence intended to accelerate...
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A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego has turned what Microsoft calls a routine product lifecycle milestone into a flashpoint over security, consumer choice and the company’s AI strategy—alleging that ending free Windows 10 support will abandon as many as hundreds of millions of...
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A California resident has filed suit asking a court to stop Microsoft from turning off routine updates for Windows 10 this October, arguing that the company’s decision amounts to forced obsolescence that favors Windows 11 and Microsoft’s push into generative AI—and that the legal challenge could...
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