[mclemme]

A few years ago there was usually a huge "don't change my facebook" uproar every time facebook changed the functionality or layout of the site. Yet every time a change was implemented, a few weeks went by and most people forgot it ever changed and loved the new layout and/or functionality.

Facebook could and can do that because they own facebook, and you are the product (being sold to marketers, etc.)

I think people are slowly realizing that the situation is the same with Windows, there's always been complaints when new Windows versions came out, Win98 => ME => 2k => XP => Vista => 7 => 8 => 10. But usually people only experienced the switch whenever they got a new computer with a newer version of Windows on it.

Edit: http://www.allwelike.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/26-Faceb...

[wolfgke]

The company that I had an internship at a few years ago (in software development) also pieced together computers from individually selected components for special customers (say, from medical sector or engineering).

At that time customers nearly always insisted that despite Windows 8 would have advantages for them to have Windows 7 installed (if they weren't ordering the computer with only some GNU/Linux distribution installed, as some customers also did). The reason is that often there were employees at the company that ordered the PC which couldn't get along with the new GUI (the same thing also happened for the Ribbon GUI that was introduced with Office 2007; I know people who still prefer the old Office 2003 GUI and only use the current version because they have to).

So already at that time lots of customers were waiting for the version that came after 8.0/8.1.

But Microsoft did the completely wrong thing: While fixing the GUI annoyances with Windows 10 (as far as I have heard) they introduced espionage functionality into Windows 10 - a cardinal sin in many European countries where lots of people are deeply worried about the US spying since the Snowden revelations. Also lots of German companies are very afraid of corporate espionage from the US (at the same level or even more as they fear it from China) - and they have good reasons for being worried - I just say "Enercon":

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Enercon&oldid=711...

[stdclass]

There is an important difference between a new feature on a social network and a whole new OS. Many people have software and/or drivers installed that won't work on a newer OS.

[mclemme]

I agree! I just think Microsoft either has not taken into account the possible backlash from breaking people's printers, scanners, webcams, programs, etc. or maybe they have taken it into account and decided the backlash was worth the increased Win10 marketshare.

[beagle3]

Backlash? It will take years for sales to be affected (the general population cannot switch to Mac/Linux in less time) and the courts won't lift a finger.