MicrosoftMan. I logged in here, and signed a thing saying (basically) that I'd "be nice" in my posts, but truth to tell I came here to unleash 25 years' worth of ire and bile at Microsoft for what I have always held to be your evil and unethical business practices. Unfortunately, as soon as I get more than a half-paragraph into it, the rage and fury take over and I am reduced to invective, ad-hominem attack, and various other questionable rhetorical forms.
I'll just leave it at this: I'm delighted to observe what seems a larger groundswell of grassroots resentment against Microsoft, since its announcement of Windows 11, than at any time in the past. I've hoped for such a thing at every new-Windows-version announcement, but people are sheep (as you so clearly already know) and it hasn't happened. Until now, when you betrayed everyone who believed your promises, when you announced Windows 10, that it was going to be the last version of Windows. Some of us only allowed our defenses to drop, and invested in Windows 10 systems, because of that promise -- only to find ourselves suddenly betrayed by the completely unexpected announcement of Windows 11 -- myself, only four months after allowing into my home my first-ever Windows 10 system, indeed my first brand new Windows computer since probably 2004ish. I've been kicking myself for a fool, ever since the announcement, and any time anybody within my hearing expresses a similar resentment, I urge them to draw their line in the sand, and never go Windows 11. I certainly won't, and so far I've heard the same from a lot of other people. My hope and my prayer is that Microsoft finally gets what's coming to them: wholesale abandonment by the user community, and utter, devastating, collapse and bankruptcy. (If at some point you find you need to sell off intellectual property to make payroll for another few weeks, I'll give you ten grand for all of Windows XP: source, build tools, documentation, you name it: everything necessary to bring the product back to life outside your grubby fingers. This is a one time offer and the amount will only ever go down. Take it or leave it.)
(Insert forty paragraphs of enraged, white-hot bile and invective, here.)
