(Almost) nobody is complaining about Google forcing them to update Android to the next version -- it just happens. That's what Microsoft is doing right now.
They'd like everyone to believe that, but I suspect the picture will look quite different by the start of 2020 when Windows 7 support runs out. It's certainly possible that MS will win this one through sheer determination, but it's certainly also possible that their senior management will be removed and the replacements will steer the ship back towards a more traditional and trusted path, and there's also a significant chance that with so long to go some other party will mount a credible attack on Microsoft's dominance on the desktop by then.
(Probably not :))
In this context, I think Linux has most potential as the foundation for more targeted platforms that might compete for specific niches within the traditional desktop space, along the lines of Chrome OS or SteamOS. Android has shown that you can build a very successful, very widely used platform on top of Linux within the kind of time frame we're talking about here.
That's because it doesn't happen. You get a new version of Android when you buy a new phone.
Once I decided not to upgrade. But it used to pop up every now and then and I used to cancel the notification. Once by mistake, I pressed ok and there was no way to cancel the update. Then it bloated my phone(Samsung S4) like anything and phone keeps complaining out of disk space and I have to keep deleting my photos(and also uninstall apps) for getting more and more space for the stupid android it's own junk
Because updating to a new Android version doesn't break my apps, my hardware, nor my workflows.
Meanwhile, every Windows major releases deprecates entire classes of hardware (Need a working parallel port? Too bad!), breaks various kinds of business critical software, and completely restructures the UX so that people have to re-learn how to do trivial things.
Can you elaborate? I have Windows 10 and my parallel port is working just dandy.