[vetinari]

When you started using Gmail or ChromeOS, you started with understanding, that you are using a browser and everything happens pretty much on Google servers.

When you started using Windows, it was pretty much offline affair. Many people were connected to internet only occasionally, if at all.

So basically, Gmail/ChromeOS was adding something to your options - you have a new service, you can decide whether you can start using it - or not. Windows is taking away from you - you were using it for years, maybe decades, most of the world is dependent on it, and suddenly, the rules of the game change and you cannot do anything about it.

[yuhong]

Yea, they didn't call it "Windows as a service" for nothing.