Maybe you forgot the tracking part? Or the inability of the user to customize the update behavior? This is malware. And you're paying for it, which is mind-bog

Maybe you forgot the tracking part? Or the inability of the user to customize the update behavior? This is malware. And you're paying for it, which is mind-boggling. Edit: you might think I'm a zealot about this, but I actually started my dev career on Windows 9x back in the day, with Visual Studio no less. When windows introduced online activation, and Visual Studio (2005?) followed suit, I started to look around.