Had my 7 in the shop last week and the guy said he has a lot of customers, like me, who are trying to get ever ounce of life out of their 7 computers because they hate 10. Gates is trying his hardest to run off customers. He already ran off hubby to Linux when an unwanted 10 decided to download into his 7 and murdered it.
I hear ya, and I feel you (and your hubby's) pain.
Worth noting, though -- Bill Gates handed off Microsoft to Steve Ballmer almost two decades ago (2000) and stepped aside. Ballmer screwed things up royally and was eventually replaced by Satya Nadella in 2014, who is doing considerably better. Gates has been out of the picture, as far as any real control of corporate direction, for well over a decade.