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That's why it'll end up beig forced on people. Just like what's happened with 11. And 10 before it. Didn't happen to everyone, but there were lots of complaints about it happening.

If it's forced and also needs a subscription, quite a lot of people will leave for the alternatives.

There are more sinister ways to force people to do something than just outright requiring. People seem to have forgotten, or never knew, that time when new DirectX was supported only on Win7 and didn't work on previous versions mysteriously, but all new games required it. WIndows 7 didn't see such a huge adoption naturally. Same thing when new Office is released file format changes just enough so that old Office doesn't support new files, but new Office supports all the formats, so people would end up upgrading. Otherwise majority of people don't need more than configuring margins, fond sizes and bold.

But will they though? They should, but will they? I predict only very very very few will.

I agree with what Plopp said. The logical response is "fuck that" and move on to something, ANYTHING, else. But we should know by now that most people will just suck it up because it's too much effort to learn something new.

And 7 before it. And XP before it... Moot point really.

I don't remember XP or 7 being installed automatically on anyone's PCs. That was what I was referring to in my previous comment. The "upgrade" to 10 and I think 11 happened automatically, without consent, on some people's PCs.

I don't remember 11 being installed on my pc automatically. I've waited for over a year before i had to click multiple times to get the upgrade to 11.
I don't remember 10 being installed automatically over my 7.

Microsoft was taken to court over forcing the 7->10 upgrade

Read the first few paragraphs of your source. Nothing was forced.
Thanks for agreeing with me.

You stopped too early

For a time, clicking the “X” in the upper right corner of the Windows 10 upgrade prompt window was interpreted as consent to upgrade to the new operating system. The typical expectation for all users is that clicking the “X” ends the program, and in fact, doing so was the only way to reject the free upgrade offer for most of the pop-ups notification’s existence. The same prompt could upgrade your system to Windows 10 without explicit consent if you left you computer on for an extended period, as well. PCWorld received hundreds of reader complaints about “forced” Windows 10 after Microsoft began using those tactics.

The quotes are there because there was always technically a way available to avoid the upgrade, but there are two distinct instances listed of users being upgraded without consent.

Sorry, i was very biased because the few times i noticed that it did happen "automatically" was when people around me didn't bother to read.
I always waited years and even though i was often asked i always had the choice to not upgrade without workarounds.
The few where it happened automatically were mostly not automatic but people just clicking ok.

I am biased though. I will now retreat into my cave and keep using the OS that i like most.