Okay, ask yourself, what is the reason for ending support of Windows 7 and making new CPU’s only support Windows 10?. Money is the only reason I can think of.
Now, how is Windows 7 different from Windows 10 when it comes to making money for Microsoft?
If they end support, what does it matter if people continue to use Windows 7 instead of Windows 10? Once again, what difference between Windows 7 and Windows 10 that makes money for Microsoft?
The Microsoft Store. Windows 7 doesn’t have it. Windows 10 does. Every copy of Windows that has the Microsoft Store potentially makes money for Microsoft. Windows 7, without the Microsoft Store, doesn’t. If Microsoft can force all of those Windows 7 users into Windows 10, many will buy stuff from the Microsoft Store in Windows 10.
Microsoft may have offered a piece of the store sales action to Intel, Dell, HP, etc. if they push Windows 10.
So, follow the money, right to the Microsoft Store. That must be the answer as to why Microsoft is pushing, even forcing, and giving away Windows 10 to users that don’t want it. Up-selling from the Microsoft Store.
The Apple Store and Google Store make a lot of money for those companies. Microsoft wants to do the same, but its Windows phone is a flop and loses Microsoft money on each one sold. All they have left to offer their Microsoft Store through is Windows 10. That’s got to be the reason for all the high pressure tactics to upgrade.
IMHO, Objective isn't money or even market share. MS is a good enough company not to get themselves into this mess, which they have, making New Coke look like a success story.
IMHO, its convoluted, but driven by the agendas in hitech toward neurological programming.
Some of the problems with the MS SW is simply very poor documentation. Microsoft always had a problem with keeping their operating system Basis of Design so tightly chested that one corner of the company didn't know what the other was doing. People migrated to what they could engineer and manage, hence their new SW rollout and imaging programs. If you don't know what it does, just copy and paste it into a backwards compatible machine and hopefully it works.
Some people want to meet milestones, others believe its bit too arrogant.
We seem to be living in a Plug and Play, replace the part world, where nobody knows how anything works from the bottom up, anymore. Installing the OS is fraught with steps to perform, but few are really following what is being performed systemically.
If it were money driven, MS wouldn't care who was getting it, they still would have their hands in the transaction at activation. IMHO, it's so complicated, they're just trying to shut off their older systems and keep their hands in the cookie jar on the new ones.
