Microsoft care quite a bit because security vulnerabilities of end user machines that were out of date was a huge issue. Since they basically stopped allowing users to run outdated versions, that problem has effectively disappeared.
Suggest reading up on the history of personal computing, and then ask yourself if this is how it was supposed to go. At this point, even Mac and Linux users are starting to feel the loving embrace of their OS vendors' paternalism.
> So it was necessary to destroy the product in order to save its users.
I fail to see how an updated OS is a destroyed product.
I don't think you want to go there, broheim. Wait'll you hear my opinion of how "safe" your computer is, and whether it should be allowed on a network.
I fail to see how an updated OS is a destroyed product.
A personal computer, along with its operating system, should do what its owner tells it to do.
That was kind of the original idea, anyway.