What the article says is absolutely correct: Trust has been violated. I’ve been a staunch Windows user since around 1990 before Windows 3.1. My first business was called “Windows of Opportunity”. I will likely ditch Windows after my current machine in a few years.
I personally was not quick to jump on the ‘doze bandwagon, since all the applications I was working with at the time were DOS-based and Windows 3.0 just ran far too slowly and I had no need for a GUI environment for the work I was tasked with. Over the years however more and more useful programs were released that not only worked well in the ‘doze environment but began to integrate well also. So, I began working more and more in Windows as things progressed.
Now I have some critical programs that need Windows to operate, although I have progressed to pretty much all-Linux for everything else. Actually, at first I was just a bit amused watching the “upgrade” consternations proceed because they reminded so much about the win2k-to-XP events that played out not that long ago.
The win10 problems however, are turning out to be much more worrisome this time around due to the machinations of the microsoft moguls and the fact that so many people simply do not need or even want to upgrade their perfectly good current setups simply for the opportunity to possess the newest Windows offering(s).
Microsoft is making no friends with their we-know-best attitude in pushing the win10 OS.