Understandable, but for a lot of people (me at least) a large part of why we use Windows on one machine or another is because of what it offers over those other

Understandable, but for a lot of people (me at least) a large part of why we use Windows on one machine or another is because of what it offers over those other OSes. I personally tend to use Windows because I can run it on just about any brand or model of x86 PC, it supports pretty much every component or peripheral I own, and it will run software not available for Linux. So yeah, when something you make heavy use of adopts policies that you don't like, it's pretty common to discuss and criticize them. If nothing else, Microsoft (or any other company) would be wise to consider these complaints from users because they can easily impact their bottom line over time.