>You're completely underestimating the scale necessary to carry out proper testing and validation. I think you're completely overestimating the scale. In any c

>You're completely underestimating the scale necessary to carry out proper testing and validation. I think you're completely overestimating the scale. In any case, neither of us really know what's going on. One thing we know is that Microsoft has the means to test these things if they wanted to. Windows 10 has been out for a while, other processor generations came out; they didn't do this trick until now. This only came up because Microsoft is seeing that their product is extremely unpopular with their customers. From a profit perspective, they're doing the logical and obvious thing: to force users to upgrade because they need their license fees.