I think it's the vestige of a time when people were in control of the software running on their computer. Their interest in blocking the update is directly prop

I think it's the vestige of a time when people were in control of the software running on their computer. Their interest in blocking the update is directly proportional to the difficulty in doing so. I think it's healthy to oppose certain mandates in principle even if the particular mandate is good. If we lose the ability or knowledge to stop an update, we have lost some freedom. It's not too hard to imagine MS getting hacked and a truly malicious update being pushed. The hate you speak of is the hate for the principle of losing control, not hate for MS itself.