Recently the UK bought some old laptops with Win10. I think they handed over to Microsoft +300 million pounds (or within that sum; I don't know how much was attributed to the actual laptops).
I think when you get these deals, you get rich, but you are no longer having any real incentive to do quality control. So the whole system breaks down. They do minimum quality control. Plus, a lot of what Microsoft seems to be doing nowadays is to spy on people. The recall anti-feature kind of gave this away, but before that there was "trusted computing", which I can understand may make sense for some organisations, but for solo users? Why am I being tagged and monitored suddenly? Why is a corporation claiming this is about "trust"? I don't trust that corporation. (I use Linux anyway, but still; one computer has Win10 right now, which I use mostly for testing stuff.)
I think when you get these deals, you get rich, but you are no longer having any real incentive to do quality control. So the whole system breaks down. They do minimum quality control. Plus, a lot of what Microsoft seems to be doing nowadays is to spy on people. The recall anti-feature kind of gave this away, but before that there was "trusted computing", which I can understand may make sense for some organisations, but for solo users? Why am I being tagged and monitored suddenly? Why is a corporation claiming this is about "trust"? I don't trust that corporation. (I use Linux anyway, but still; one computer has Win10 right now, which I use mostly for testing stuff.)