>One wonders what would have happened if they just sort of let Windows be Windows. Presumably, given that the opposite has happened, in that case, "targets" wo

>One wonders what would have happened if they just sort of let Windows be Windows. Presumably, given that the opposite has happened, in that case, "targets" would not have been met by "Q4" and important team members would have to be "let go". As you point out, this is not new. I would pin the start of this trajectory on the introduction of Windows Activation with XP. It's all variations on the theme of restricting the user's freedom. It hasn't been your software since 2001. It's theirs.