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Microsoft pays $10,000 for an unauthorized upgrade Terry Goldstein sued Microsoft were automatically upgrading her computer to Windows 10 the courts cited with Goldstein and ordered Microsoft to pay up Microsoft opted not to appeal which meant Microsoft had to pay Goldstein $10,000 Goldstein used her computer to run her travel agency business moving her computer to Windows 10 caused her machine to be slow crash and essentially be unusable for days Goldstein says she had never heard of Windows 10 and she did not authorize the update the upgrade to her machine happened too close to the original release of Windows 10 last year there has been some public backlash to Microsoft being really pushy with its upgrade prompts Microsoft will be changing that update prompt with new options users will be able to choose from upgrade now choose time or decline free offer that new product will roll out to all users within a week clicking the red X on the top right will actually dismiss the prompt in an older version clicking the X would start the upgrade Microsoft's free Windows 10 offer will end on July 29th after that the Windows 10 prompt should be phased out that's it for this tech news update I'm Maya's akhtar and you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash