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Tim Richardson

"and still you can reschedule it as many times as you want"
I don't think that is correct. Only some Windows licences allow deferring, and no Window licence allows indefinite deferral of feature updates.
Microsoft wants to cut costs associated with maintaining Windows as it is now a legacy product, and I imagine it is an incredibly expensive product to support per version. Forced upgrades make it cheaper since eventually, when Windows 7 reaches end of live, Microsoft will have a much reduced number of versions to support. I think this is a good thing for everyone.

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Tim Apple

I don't know if I can go for permanently deferred updates. I guess, for feature updates. But most of these contain security fixes also. I think it's a bad idea not to update.

What I see more of is third party software doesn't move as fast as Windows, especially on the enterprise side. I work with a lot of Dentists and the biggest issue we face is their practice management software either doesn't work with Win10 or the Dentist themselves refuse to update the PMS and updates break things because they are determined to stay on old code bases... fear of change.

Either way, Windows 10 came out 4 years ago..it's ridiculous some vendors have not caught up yet.