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As usual, the comments live up to their entertainment value, even more so than the snarky rant in the article! Some serious whinging going on here!

I've currently bootcamped Windows 10 on a MacBook Pro, using Apple's bootcamp drivers from early-2014. So far so good after about a week. It definitely feels faster than the Win 7 it was upgraded from. All my programs were kept and everything works, albeit most of my software is no older than 5 years. There is a lot of new 'apps', a lot of which I probably won't use. But, then again, OS X was bundled with a whole lot of stuff I never use as well; iMovie, Garage Band, Photos, etc.

To each their own, but new Start menu is good for me, much better than the static and drill-down style Windows 7 Start menu. I keep about 4 live tiles going, unpinned all the stuff I don't want, and in total I have about 12 tiles of various sizes in my menu. The 3 applications I use most are pinned to the taskbar (one of them is OneNote, which is way better than the OS X version). There have been 3 updates that have been automatically pushed down to me, but none of them forced me to reboot or interrupted my task at hand. I think they will do a backflip on this automatic updates thing. The new (to Windows) Task View feature is also pretty good, plus the virtual desktops. Even in OS X, I log in with my Apple ID so it's no different here that I have to use a Microsoft Account. Again, not a big issue for me. Some of the privacy stuff looks quite intrusive, but I think the permissions required of some apps on my phone are way more so. I think Microsoft will probably backflip on the privacy stuff too.