Sure, I have a hard time believing MS would purposefully screw their Win 7/8 enterprise customers - but the issue at hand suggests it's at the very least a bypr

Sure, I have a hard time believing MS would purposefully screw their Win 7/8 enterprise customers - but the issue at hand suggests it's at the very least a byproduct of their new strategy of focus on Win 10 and the decision to do with less QA/Testers by involving more end users to participate in testing. Thus Win 7 users end up with slower, less tested patches and no hardware support backports. To be fair only the less tested patches sound terrible.