Comment by Silhouette

They're entitled to make whatever business decisions they like, but of course those of us who don't want anything to do with Windows 10 won't now buy their new product in this case, so only time will tell whether the business decision has the effect they're hoping for. Microsoft's strategy under Nadella seems to be shifting towards the extremes of enterprise-scale customers and lightweight home users at the expense of the SMEs and power users in between, so this decision seems consistent with their recent pattern.