I built my first PC in 1982. I am now 65 years old and have never bought a factory built computer for myself.
I have loaded every MS OS since the earliest DOS systems and all the Windows OS’s except Vista (have replaced several of those with XP).
Started using Linux around 1994, an UMSDOS version of Slackware. Upgraded to Mandrake then Redhat in 1995 or 1996. Most recently have been using Xubuntu.
For quite a few years I had 2 PC’s on my desk (XP & Redhat Linux) and access into the AS400 database server in the office. Pulled lots of queries via flat files out of the AS400 and composed a 3000+ page catalog from it. That process was a total hack.
SO, no matter what Microsoft does, I probably will not be a purchaser of their latest OS.
Same here. I've been buying boxes, and all 'puter innards since they became available. Oh, wait, I did buy (at awful high prices) one of the first rat-shacks to hit the market.
But after that, it has always been cheaper to build my own box, putting in the best available, often far better than name-brands.
But, I soon found that in order to help others with their machines I needed to know about the MS op-systems, so began to buy and install those, at exorbitant prices.
Now I've quit doing that - was bad enough.