They're already being held hostage by 1000s of companies who won't update their crappy software so it runs properly, allowing them to install OS updates rapidly

They're already being held hostage by 1000s of companies who won't update their crappy software so it runs properly, allowing them to install OS updates rapidly. As I said, like ChromeOS, it's perfectly possible to run your own servers, don't need to pay Google or Microsoft. https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/enterprise/running-the-cloud-policy-test-server https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/enterprise/runni...