Any junior level engineer, product manager, or professional panhandler could have seen this coming. Microsoft is betting on their marketshare and the stupidity

Any junior level engineer, product manager, or professional panhandler could have seen this coming. Microsoft is betting on their marketshare and the stupidity of their average customer, as they have always done in the past. Unfortunately, out of 4 OS releases, 3 have been outright failures (Vista, 8, 10), one was decent (7), and even your average computer using idiot is aware of the horrible software quality that Microsoft is putting out these days because they have to use it. While disasters like removing the Start button are much more prone to stir ill will in privacy-ignorant consumers than privacy concerns, I'm sure there are no shortage of bugs in Windows 10 to further antagonize Windows users to the point that they might start to care about privacy and see it as just another way they're getting fucked over by Microsoft (which it is). In my testing for example, the Edge browser is completely unusable and can't even paint its own window. With software like that and all the privacy concerns, it's likely Windows 10 will have even less adoption that 8. I guess all the executive shifting and layoffs really can't change Microsoft's root problems (but at least they're now releasing interesting open source software.)