True, but the keyword is "force". It'll have to be a pretty big stick.
They're already playing games with the latest processors only supporting Windows 10 (Kaby Lake, etc.). The pressure is being applied already.
For whatever reason, they appear willing to have users defect from Windows to Linux and Mac, rather than let them stay on Win7. They're betting on their market share not dropping too much, so that they still have enough leverage to force the enterprise users to bend over. They might be right; time will tell.
[[The pressure is being applied already.]]
Not to me it isn’t- love my linux for all online work- don’t miss windows one bit for online stuff- for windows only games and programs like photoshop- i dual boot to windows 7 but don’t allow it to go online except only very briefly for updates or program downloads is needed- i get everything the way i like it- all programs installed- tweaks done, updates done- and then do a macrium reflect clone- easy peasy- If anythign happens, i just install fro mthe clone backup for hte windows, then clean install linux right next to it as primary OS- up and running in no time at all now-
windows 10 has nothing i want and loads of stuff i don’t want- I was windows only for a goodl ong time- but windows 10 finally pushed me to linux and windows 7 dual boot system- haven’t looked back-
linux does everything i need it to online- and looks and acts just like windows doing so- no differences really except that i have to use firefox and thunderbird now instead of IE- but no big deal- firefox works fine-