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Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

M$'s mistake creates no obligation to pay, either way. They cannot sue anyone for the extra money.

But some customers (depending on their legislation) might sue M$ to make broken systems running again, for example if these systems have stopped now with a 'missing license' error message.