Sign this petition to investigate Microsoft for unethical business practices

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Jun 7, 2016

Your choice............

Sign this petition to draw the EFF's attention and ask them to investigate Microsoft for unethical business practices. The investigation would be long and any legal action would be longer, but it is a worthwhile fight to keep computers and the internet free, maintain privacy, and give users more control of the devices in their homes.
(https://www.eff.org/about)

https://www.change.org/p/the-electo...-for-malicious-practices-regarding-windows-10

64K · Jun 7, 2016

MS hasn't forced a Windows 10 upgrade on my laptops and I turned updates off on my gaming rig. I plan to build a gaming rig next year with Win 10 on it. Eventually Win 7 will be a dinosaur just like XP.

P4-630 · Jun 7, 2016

Still waiting for windows 11 or 12....

I will stay on windows 8.1 for now, stable, reliable, good drivers, no sudden suprises and I'm happy with it.

Liquid Cool · Jun 7, 2016

CAPS,

I'm in...

.

Best,

Liquid Cool

RejZoR · Jun 7, 2016

Funny thing is, if there wasn't this bullshit forced driver and OS updating through Windows Update and all the tracking and data mining nonsense, EVERYONE with Win7 or Win8.x would upgrade to Win10 asap. The fact people refuse tells a lot. But Microsoft still just doesn't get it...

NdMk2o1o · Jun 7, 2016

But but... surely if all the allegations were correct about forced installs, tracking, malpractice etc our governments who are there to protect us and serve us would surely investigate such a big corporation as MS...... lmao as if, google paid 3m in back taxes of billions recently, I underpay by £5 and they're straight on my back demanding it or else, gotta love big business. Both the same as the government it's a case of money talks and they will do what they like regardless...

alucasa · Jun 7, 2016

Not signing because I've always felt that internet petition is useless.

Beastie · Jun 7, 2016

I'm voting with my feet- unless I have a major change of heart in the next few days I'll be sticking with W7 until after the free upgrade ends.

broken pixel · Jun 8, 2016

Signed & shared on Farcebook.

Naito · Jun 8, 2016

While we're all at it, may as well start one for Google too.

scipio · Jun 8, 2016

On windows 10, microsoft will not allow remapping of keys to the xbox one controller unless you spend 150 on an elite controller, BS...

Athlon2K15 · Jun 8, 2016

scipio said:
On windows 10, microsoft will not allow remapping of keys to the xbox one controller unless you spend 150 on an elite controller, BS...

D007 · Jun 8, 2016

I feel like this should be in the general nonsense forum...

broken pixel · Jun 8, 2016

OOSU10

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

truth teller · Jun 8, 2016

64K said:
Eventually Win 7 will be a dinosaur just like XP.

nothing wrong with that
remember, your car is still powered by dead dinosaur juice

broken pixel · Jun 8, 2016

truth teller said:
nothing wrong with that
remember, your car is still powered by dead dinosaur juice

The U.S. Military Industrial Complex still runs on Windows XP PRO LTS & mucho ATM machines still use XP.

Liquid Cool · Jun 8, 2016

Aegis for Windows 7/8.x

I've been using Aegis for all of my Win 7 x64 installs, it's worked perfectly. Although, Paul Thurott in his recent rant recommended Steve Gibson's "Never 10" to his readers.

Best,

Liquid Cool

manofthem · Jun 8, 2016

My problem is with change.org. I signed a petition there once that someone posted here, and it went fine. Then I started getting inundated with emails from change.org, and it took 3 or 4 unsubscribe attempts to finally get them to stop. Perhaps I missed a simple setting but gosh that was annoying.

ShiBDiB · Jun 17, 2016

broken pixel said:
The U.S. Military Industrial Complex still runs on Windows XP PRO LTS & mucho ATM machines still use XP.

Mil computers haven't been on XP for a few years now.......

Caring1 · Jun 17, 2016

ShiBDiB said:
Mil computers haven't been on XP for a few years now.......

Upgraded to Vista? :roll:

blacktruckryder · Jun 17, 2016

Not once have I been forced to update anything! Running windows 8.1 on a tablet and running windows 10 on three computers.
If I thought Microsoft was so bad I would switch to Linux or Apple.

Fluffmeister · Jun 17, 2016

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/

Time to grow up ladies.

R-T-B · Jun 17, 2016

no offense, I want an investigation to happen, but change.org petitions (and internet petitions/clicktivism in general) never really accomplish anything if we're being honest.

Fluffmeister said:
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/

Time to grow up ladies.

Not sure what you're point is? Bill Gates has actually been highly critical of Microsoft lately.

Frick · Jun 17, 2016

Beastie said:
I'm voting with my feet- unless I have a major change of heart in the next few days I'll be sticking with W7 until after the free upgrade ends.

Sooo .... You're buying it later then? For money?

truth teller said:
nothing wrong with that
remember, your car is still powered by dead dinosaur juice

Not the same thing. One is an incredibly complicated piece of software which likely is connected to a world-spanning network of computers while not getting the security updates it probably needs. The other is fuel for engines propelled by explosions. In fact, modern engines is to old engines exactly what Windows 10 is to Windows 1.0.

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Sign this petition to investigate Microsoft for unethical business practices

CAPSLOCKSTUCK

Spaced Out Lunar Tick

64K

P4-630

Liquid Cool

RejZoR

NdMk2o1o

alucasa

Beastie

broken pixel

Naito

scipio

Athlon2K15

HyperVtX™

D007

broken pixel

truth teller

broken pixel

Liquid Cool

manofthem

WCG-TPU Team All-Star!

ShiBDiB

Caring1

blacktruckryder

Fluffmeister

R-T-B

Frick

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