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Which must be why Microsoft spends tens of billions on advertising W10 and their surface products on TV exclusively aimed at consumers. You can’t turn on a sports show of any kind with out their products showing up everywhere all the time.
On the other hand, for all practical purposes, Microsoft has abandoned their bread and butter enterprise and business customers, completely ignoring them. Windows 8 is a cell-phone operating system and was completely ignored by the enterprise and business, and Windows 10 is actually worse for the enterprise and business than Windows 8, with its forced upgrades that are by policy completely a mystery, its complete spyware nature, and its being turned into a peer-to-peer server, pushing those very same updates onto the computers of your neighbors and competitors. Not to mention, there’s not a single new thing in Windows 10 actually useful for the enterprise and businesses: all the new things in W10 are aimed at consumers.
Like Windows 8, Windows 10 will not be picked up by the enterprise and businesses.
That's absolutely rubbish!
How about the following new and, might I add, wonderful security features alone?
--Device Guard
--Device Integrity
--Domain Join to Azure AD
--Enterprise Data Protection
--Integrated Data Lose Protection (DLP)
--Windows Hello
--Microsoft Passport
--Windows Provable PC Health (PPCH)
Do you even know what a single one of these things does???
You can disagree with Microsoft as to each items ultimate effectiveness, but to say there are no new enterprise or business features is completely ignorant and frankly, embarrassing for you.
Oh, and by the way, do you know what a Servicing Branch is?
Do you know what LTSB--Long Term Servicing Branch--does for the Enterprise?
It allows Business customers to opt out of automatic updates and get and deploy updates through WSUS. Same as it always has done.
IT departments have the necessarily skilled people to ensure proper updates are managed and applied. For years Microsoft has been sued and berated for various security hacks and other code vulnerabilities BECAUSE no one applied the update that correctly addressed it/closed the hole, except for those Enterprises that had staff who knew how important it was to do so--and do it quickly, before too many script kiddies got their hands on the code.
BUT ignorant consumers--such as you--turned off updates because they heard from a guy who had a friend who knew someone who had a Microsoft update destroy their system. This caused FAR, FAR more problems than the near-mythological system destroying update. And when such an unlikely update is applied and does do damage, it is almost always because the system is configured incorrectly anyways.
So now these updates are just going to be done, so they cannot be ignored and have some script kiddie destroy the system...
Still, there are many ways to turn them off--and all the other scary things you mentioned.