Comment by greatgib

   I don't want people to switch away from Windows; I want Microsoft to treat its premier operating system like it used to.

Total Stockholm syndrome. The user is mistreated by a company but they continue accepting whatever offense is done to them. A big I'll advised fidelity. So, obviously the provider has no reason to change anything regarding the fact that consumers are happy to be victims.

The funniest is the user having the feeling that the OS was better to them previously when it was like this since forever, even if it was just broken for the user in other aspects than breaking notepad for cloud licensing.