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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
Windows 10 continues its slow march to desktop domination
With undisguised admiration for Microsoft's thuggish campaign to dominate you, this author extrapolates current "adoption" rates to predict Windows 10 majority in two years' time. He has failed to consider a couple of factors:
- The low-hanging fruit, the low information basic users, have already been picked. What is left is us power users who insist on control of our own systems. We paid our money to build what we want and will not compromise.
- If Microsoft means what it says (itself very doubtful) the "free" "upgrade" to Windows 10 will end in July(? Who actually cares?). After that, forced upgrades are not a voluntary contract and under the Interstate Commerce Act (in the USA), as an unsolicited delivery, users have no obligation to pay for it and can keep it or dispose of it for free, no questions asked.
My money is on 2020 before Windows 10 nears the market share of Windows 7. Microsoft could hasten that by sabotaging Windows 7 through the upgrade process to make it an unusable operating system. Never rule that out as a possibility. Remember Windows XP, which I continue to use on a laptop with no problems whatever and it remains untouched by malware after being online continuously for three months.
Unless Microsoft buys a vowel I'll be a Linux user when the options run out and Microsoft is very busy "dominating" the market. They make Darth Vader look like a hero. 
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But lets not forgfet that new, hiogh performing computer hardware as used by power gamers will not tolerate W7 anymore, at least will block updating W7 or will interfere with it: an according alliance between manufacturers and MS has been sealed by MS some time ago. Possible that a guy likme me, if his current rig brakes, will need to embrace W10 then.
Which for me means to then run to separat systems. I currently do not even add funds to Steam wallet under Windows anymore but only under Linux.
A gaming rig will then only be used for gaming - AND NOTHING ELSE. EVERYTHING ELSE then will be done not just under a different HD and OS on the same machine, but a separate laptop with Linux.
When that time comes, and no perosnal data can be fished off by MS from my game rig, my major concern then will be the obviously disastrous quality of the OS itself, its mess-creating updates, it's many failures with KB updates often even increasing the mess.
Some mon ths ago it was announced that a huge law suite was beeing formed against MS over these things. I wonder what has happened to that. And I doubt it has big chances anyway.