That's a pretty douchey way to force an upgrade. That said, I fucked around with Windows 7, I fucked around with Windows 8, and Windows 10 is where I finally said "screw it, I'm going back."

It's interesting watching the Microserfs freak the fuck out over a forced free upgrade when you're coming from the World of Steve. "ZOMG El Capitan is free!" compared with "how dare you provide me with new features!" "I can limp along on this 7-year-old tower because I paid $5k for it" vs. "But I might have to buy another $300 shitbox!"

I dunno. After ten years in the Cult of X I find all the Windows harangue to be much ado about nothing. I mean, I run my browser in a virtual box because of the viruses'n'shit - yer damn skippy I keep that thing upgraded. And from an external perspective, Nadella has released the first viable operating system since XP . And I can run f'n 16-bit code on it. There comes a time when those programs that were written in 1998 need to move on. Compared to the breaky-breaky that OS X does all the fucking time (what's that? You want your $1500 soundcard to work? How's that again? You want to use all three of your monitor ports? Oh, you want both of your ethernet ports to work?) the Windows crew come across as a little histrionic.

But this window is douchey.