then in one year the registry key stops working and we force the new functionality.
Just like they did with Windows 7 when 10 came out. Release an update to remove the option inside Windows Update to review and choose which updates to install so you then have no choice but to accept all available updates. Then release another update to force GWX on your machine which then tries to force download Win10 ready for installation, your machines performance being crippled during download so you think you have a virus or malware. But removing GWX needed registry tweaks as well as removal of the relevant update, so it looked more like malware than an official MS update. And if you managed to avoid that shitshow, for the next year or so there were 2 to 3 times the number of 'updates' to Win7 then there ever had been before, but after each round of updates something else stopped working or the functionality was slightly different. It was almost as if MS were slowly, but deliberately breaking installations of Win7 to force people to move to the abortion which is Win10.
I really do feel sorry for the sysadmins who have to put up with the regular firefight to keep their Windows based systems up and running.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
