content: Tell all the companies that rely on customized software that.  Or the people all over the Internet that wax poetic about programs from DOS that no longer work that they have yet to find a substitute for.  Not everyone can afford to be constantly and perpetually rewriting the same crap over and over and over for all eternity, which is what a lot of software vendors are trying to force to be the norm.  The mainframe people got it right on that count.  Heck, if stability is such a concern, integrating virtualization more directly into the OS for this kind of stuff would go a long, long way indeed.  But no, they're not interested in that.  They just want to suck everyone dry until they finally get us on subscription fully, and at that point they have complete control of our software and our hardware. The biggest thing about this, though, is that it is another attempt by Microsoft to push people onto Windows 10, with forced upgrades, forced uninstallation of programs Microsoft doesn't like, the initial push onto people's computers, and of course, everyone's favorite, the "telemetry," plus whatever other horrid features they cook up in the future. If Windows 10 stripped out all of this then 90% of Windows 10 complaints would vanish and this announcement would almost be a non-issue, because this is pretty much the standard behavior for Microsoft and has been since the 1980s.  This move isn't a surprise, except for the serious problems with Windows 10 and the resulting pushback and resistance that Microsoft is so desperately trying to contain and suppress  But Microsoft won't remove these "features" and will continue to try to ram the Windows 10 turd down the throats of their customers, because they're heavily invested in ultimately owning people's computers with their software.  Hence the outcry.