A deafening silence
It's been a puzzle all along. I view what Microsoft are doing to Windows 7 and 8.1 as malicious and am being forced to treat Windows Update as a Trojan Horse.
But the technical press seem focused on what is new and shiny and don't really care about what is being done to what already exists.
I have a list of threads on various forums where people are (or were) discussing this stuff in a proper serious manner, but unfortunately the vast majority of Windows 7 and 8.1 users are just sitting ducks.