Microsoft shows how to repair Surface SE laptop in its video

Microsoft last week posted a video on YouTube showing how a user or repairman can open the Surface SE laptop to replace and repair its keyboard, display, and battery. However, Microsoft still does not 100% encourage home users to do this, and at the beginning and end of the video, the company disclaims any responsibility by showing this post: “Microsoft recommends that you repair your device with a “See an expert and if you want to do the repair yourself, be careful.”

It all goes back to Microsoft’s history with Surface products and the right to repair movement. In recent years, Microsoft customers have also signed public petitions asking the company to allow them to repair the device without hindrance. the video Unlocking and repairing parts of the Surface SE indicates that Microsoft may want to make some of its newer devices easier to perform related repairs and training. Respect for the right to repair in Microsoft seems to be growing.

Over the past few years, the issue of electronics repair rights in the West has come to the fore, even in mid-July this year. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Video Published and said in it that he fully defends this movement. He added that if Apple had not had the right to learn and repair electronics when it was growing up and even founding Apple, there might not be a company called Apple right now.

With the advancement of technology, some electronics companies claim that repairs to these devices are sometimes either impossible or must be done by the company itself. Despite the veracity of these claims, many repairmen and activists in the field in the West are dissatisfied with the monopoly of these companies on their products and in the opposition acknowledge that the customer has full ownership by buying electronic goods and companies can not repair the device to the owner. Dictate it.

In this regard, companies completely restrict access to the separate parts needed to repair the product and even remove the components and schemes of electrical connections in the (schematics of board) of the device that can be available to the repairman and the buyer. Some of these companies claim that doing so violates their patent rights and exposes their technologies to copying. Several US states are currently considering legislation for the electronics right to repair customer rights.