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@David

"I can understand why MS is forcing the 8.1 upgrade. Supporting 2 operating systems versus supporting one and moving a team to Windows 10 makes sense."

Don't want to sound rude, you know that but seriously, Microsoft must truly adore that easy going attitude of yours, you speak like the model, perfectly gullible customer.  Since when has it been ok for a company to FORCE anything on users of it's products?

I should have explained it a little more.

The way they went about it was worng, I do agree with that. But at the same time there really isn't any reason to develope Windows 8 when 8.1 is the upgrade for it.

This has happened before, just in a different way. Updates for Windows 7 stopped at a certain point unless you installed the service packs. Where they went drastically wrong was not making 8.1 a service pack That way support for 8 could have been dropped and no one would be screaming about it.

No one screamed about Windows 7 SP1 and it was a drastic change to it. You could not see much difference in the UI, but there were huge differences in the background.

The same thing can be said about any version of Windows prior, support fo non service packed installs basically stopped past security patches.

Remember the hardware issues in Windows 98 and ME? Not much different, other than this time you don't have to replace older hardware.

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