{"id":1699,"date":"2021-06-02T06:54:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T04:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/02\/microsoft-wrote-off-a-laptop-because-it-cant-repair-the-webcam\/"},"modified":"2021-06-02T06:54:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T04:54:07","slug":"microsoft-wrote-off-a-laptop-because-it-cant-repair-the-webcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/02\/microsoft-wrote-off-a-laptop-because-it-cant-repair-the-webcam\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft wrote off a laptop because it can\u2019t repair the webcam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its repair policy seems to fly in the face of Bill Gates\u2019s work to combat climate change<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you please ask Microsoft how it can possibly quote \u00a3427 to fix the webcam in my Surface laptop<\/strong><strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My only option to get it working is to pay this for a service <\/strong><strong>that, in this case, means replacing the entire laptop<\/strong><strong>. This seems like madness, and hardly in the spirit of the founder\u2019s work to combat climate change. It seems to me that Microsoft needs to greatly improve its products\u2019 repairability.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2021\/jun\/02\/microsoft-wrote-off-a-laptop-because-it-cant-repair-the-webcam\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a8fc48b440470e4b75a5f7fba56ca47b60b84ef7\/0_466_882_529\/master\/882.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=07ea965d8d33e3e94b106c8909c14eba\" title=\"Microsoft wrote off a laptop because it can\u2019t repair the webcam\" \/>Its repair policy seems to fly in the face of Bill Gates\u2019s work to combat climate change<br \/>\nCan you please ask Microsoft how it can possibly quote \u00a3427 to fix the webcam in my Surface laptop?<br \/>\nMy only option to get it working is to pay this for a service that, in this case, means replacing the entire laptop. This seems like madness, and hardly in the spirit of the founder\u2019s work to combat climate change. It seems to me that Microsoft needs to greatly improve its products\u2019 repairability. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its repair policy seems to fly in the face of Bill Gates\u2019s work to combat climate change Can you please ask Microsoft how it can possibly quote \u00a3427 to fix the webcam in my Surface laptop? My only option to get it working is to pay this for a service that, in this case, means &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/02\/microsoft-wrote-off-a-laptop-because-it-cant-repair-the-webcam\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft wrote off a laptop because it can\u2019t repair the webcam<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}