Microsoft Allegedly Paid $650 to Dodge Lawsuit Over Forced Windows 10 Upgrade

If you’re still on Windows 7 or 8.1, you probably remember that Microsoft was quite aggressive during the free Windows 10 upgrade offer, trying to convince everyone in one way or another to give a try to its new operating system.

And there were moments when some computers got upgraded to Windows 10 all “accidentally,” as Microsoft itself explained, due to an error with the Get Windows 10 app that downloaded and installed the OS without users’ consent.

This is what happened in the case of an Alzheimer patient, who got his computer upgraded to Windows 10 last summer all of a sudden, even though he actually refused the upgrade several times.

Tech consultant Jesse Worley explains that his grandfather most likely clicked the “X” button in the Get Windows 10 app, which originally was similar to agreeing with the upgrade to be performed at a later time. But in this case, the Windows 7 computer was configured to look and feel like Windows XP because, as the man puts it, h...