The fact that mickeysoft is giving this away free AND forcing users to take it is disturbing.
Follow the money- how are they benefiting from this?
Against my advise my sister upgraded to 10. None of her drivers work for her printers. She was told by HP they did not have drivers for her 2 year old printers.
Given the amount of useful private marketing-relevant and private-communications-relevant data they send back as "telemetry" by default, I'd say it's a combination of advertisers and the government.
But what do I know? I only know what I read on Free Republic threads! :-)
This is a loss leader, it is free now but everyone will eventually gradually pay one way another and there is more than money involved, power and control cannot be measured in dollars but is worth far more, in government and global corporate business there is no such thing as free it ultimately results in slavery of some form.
They are being pushed by nsa/dhs to do whatever it taked to get this onto as many pcs as possible,
No question fedgov is behind this.