It was Windows 8 that drove me to change. My normal laptop is now a Macbook Pro, while my desktop has Windows 7. The old desktop, which I really don’t use, but has little market value, uses Windows 10. I thought it would be good to experiment with it on there to see how I liked it.
If they go to a subscription model, I’m finished with MS. I had to jump through secret hoops to get Adobe Lightroom in a stand-alone version instead of the subscription cloud version. If they quit supporting that, I’ll go back to the less elaborate but free Canon software for picture processing.
I upgraded from Win XP to Win 7 about a year ago. Nothing wrong with XP, I just decided to get to the last Win version before MSFT fell off the cliff with Win 8 and following.
Updates are turn off and I’m very happy.