[upchuck]

My personal belief is that they are so freaked out by the slower-than-expected uptake of Windows 10 that they are willing to piss off a lot of their base to try to force people to adopt Win10.

I believe you're right. Look at this chart. Win 7 and XP users still outnumber Win 10 users by two to one. Granted, the number of Win 7 and XP users goes down every month. But very slowly. Which is frustrating to MSFT no doubt.

I have read that Win 10 has had the slowest adoption rate of any MSFT OS. Interesting chart from here:

[Bob434]

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No doubt due to the damned ‘phone home’ crap in the OS- typical home users won’t care, or even know about it- but them ore experienced users stayed away from 10 for that very reason- andm ore are likely to not get it now that all the spying crap by the government and google and such has been revealed-