Microsoft broke an age-old rule with Windows 10 updates and paid the price

Windows 10 is one the smartest, most consistent and well-thought-out Windows updates in a decade and it pains me to see people rejecting an operating system that would likely improve their digital lives.

But there's also a thing called free will and people have a right to just say no. And when they do that, you have to accept their decision and move on. Eventually, people usually make the right call or realize that holding onto aging technology is actually hurting them in other ways.

There's no question Microsoft wants everyone to upgrade to Windows 10 — it hopes to have a billion installs by 2018. That's why they made it so easy, offering free upgrades to all Windows 7 and 8.1 users. (Those upgrades cease to be free, by the way, on July 29.) Read more...