It is remarkable that Windows 7 [...] while maintaining [...] 27 per cent market share
No, it isn't. It's a clear symptom that Windows 10 failed utterly to attract uses, and some are delaying "dumbgrading" until there's no other option.
We have upgraded our system last December and that is the first Windows upgrade when you have to fight against the system disabling all the luser-oriented features, data slurping (where possible), have to adapt to a dumbed-down ugly UI which makes most applications look ugly like under Linux, and chase the same feature settings across different applications - sometimes just to find they just disappeared. The number of clicks you need to access some features has increased, less useful info are displayed (or the poor Millennials could be overwhelmed by the need to understand something useful) while some commands are scattered around without much logic. Even if you use a desktop with an UPS, it believes that's a notebook and configures accordingly.
Some of the new apps like the Mail client are incredibly bad and dumb - the mail client can't even report why it can't download mails, but has a photo background. You wonder who could have designed and signed of such crap. Then you start to uninstall all the useless apps it installs.
My thoughts are Microsoft greatly cut Windows development costs - not testers ones only - dumbing down things let it employ fewer and less skilled developers. Maybe those working on the kernel side are still the good one, but on the user/UI side it looks a bunch of amateurs which just discovered computing looking at a bad website.
Ironically, the only unsupported device we found is a Microsoft mouse.
MS may think the future is Azure, but once it has lost the desktop dominance, Azure will become just a cloud service like another...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
