Yeah, at a time when their market share is declining and real solid alternatives exist for gamers, productivity, browsing, entertainment, etc you'd think they'd do everything in their power to make their platform more inviting, flexible, affordable, etc. Burning people with stuff like this will only eat up any remaining goodwill they had with consumers, and they'll be left with corporate customers and a dumbed-down product that no one wants to administrate.
At work I use Windows 10 for Education and it runs nicely on hardware (Atom dual core with basic integrated graphics and 2G of RAM with spinning rust + some virtualised applications) that Windows 7 found problematic.
I'm just wondering: why the hassle? Just release a 'stand alone' win10 client without all the gunge. The clue is in the name - it is a client to services currently based on Microsoft software.
