Its a perfect analogy, you can update a console and have companies brick your system, eg acouple years ago with the PS3 firmware update.

I am using Win10 right now as i right this message and guess what i am having no issues with it and my PC is running 2010 hardware.  Only problem i am having is with Nortan, doesnt seem to like Win10. Apart from that, its a great OS and worth it. Go apple if you dont like MS or think they care haha.

I've caved in and despite being a W7 fan and hating W8 (my gf has it and I still can't learn to use it), I've installed W10 on my new gaming PC and so far I love it. I don't feel like going back to 7 to be honest.

It's obviously not a perfect analogy, as Microsoft did not manufacture my PC.  Perfect would mean that the two situations match completely.  They do not.  In one case, Microsoft knows and is responsible for EVERY PART of the product, including the OS.  That's why when they had a firmware update that bricked Xbox consoles, they replaced those consoles.  However, Microsoft has no such control over my PC or its confirguration.  They ONLY have control and responsibility of the OS.  If Windows 10 doesn't work with someone's mother board, you think they're buying everyone a new PC?  No.  Therefore, your analogy is not "perfect".

Lots of people haven't had a problem with Windows 10.  Lots of people have.  One does not invalidate the other in any shape or form.  Because some people never had RRoD on their Xbox 360 doesn't mean it didn't happen to others.

lol, microsoft crossed the limits with W10 marketing, they are almost forcing people to upgrade

however, I feel a bit weird cause I avoided W10 for so long until I recently updated to fix a stupid error, and W10 is totally worth it, and it's free, just sayin

Microsoft already announced one month ago that they will remove the update request end of July:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-will-soon-stop-nagging-users-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/

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They'll probably extend it another year or just keep doing the annoying pop ups but will charge for windows 10.
Hopefully, I'm wrong about it because I'm sick of the pop ups, No, I don't want your ******* windows 10.

Knowing MS, I'll believe that when I see no more pop ups related to windows 10.

I have no issues with W10. I turned all those data mining options off and its been pretty good. I was gonna update my other laptop from W7 to it but my nephew and niece decided that it was thirsty and gave it a drink.

The automated install was a mistake for sure.

That said I have installed W10 hundreds of times now, maybe into the thousands, and have had far less issues than W8/8.1 in that time. Most of the corporations I work for are now on W10 exclusively.

Gamers will pretty much have to go W10 fairly soon or be unable to play new games. UWP aside, new generation GPUs and more advanced drivers mean that W7/8/8.1 won't be doable for gaming beyond say fall 2017 at the latest. DX12 is needed for things like feasible async compute, etc.

I absolutely know that DX12 could have been made for W7, and even Vista, because the kernel of the OS is close enough for it to have been ported back without much trouble beyond a service pack. But Microsoft wants people to update sooner and not get into another Windows XP situation where they were tied to ancient code for so long. A lot of people don't know, but W8 and W10 actually removed a lot of excess junk that was residing in W7. The proof is in the install size, W10 can be installed on absolutely tiny drives, a fresh install is well under 10GB if you disable hibernation. W7 is more like 20ish.

The funny thing to me is people saying they will switch to Mac. Apple has the WORST record with supporting hardware in the world. A clear example : I have a Macbook Pro 2006 model (Intel Dual-Core, ATI Video). I upgraded it to 4GB of ram and a 240GB SSD (got it for $39 woohoo) a little while back. Apple long ago dropped it from the OSX support, so the newest OSX you can run is basically obsolete with any new software. Well screw that, I simply installed Windows 10 on it, and it runs like a boss. I installed all the drivers manually, and everything works perfectly. I have the newest Firefox w/Ublock on it, it plays 1080p videos great, even some light gaming is fine. And that's a TEN year old system. Apple long ago gave it their middle finger, but Microsoft's newest OS runs on it perfectly. The flexibility of windows is impressive.

Linux can also be incredible with long-term support as well, but it's not quite as straightforward, and the usual problems with old versions not running newer software is still valid.

Luckily, i caught windows 10 before it was ninja installed. About a week ago, I kept getting a windows 10 pop up about every 10 to 15 mins. I got annoyed by it pretty quickly and payed more attention to what it said. It was a countdown to when windows 10 installed but I never okayed it. I tried to cancel it immediately but there was no option to cancel it. I had to change when it would update then I had to cancel that to finally get wins 10 not to install. 

It's disingenuous of MS to try to make it more difficult to cancel the (free) update to windows 10 by trying to hide the option to do so. The fact that I never agreed to it in the first place is a different dickhead move altogether. I do not for the life of me understand how some people get so googly eyed over anything to do with MS when microsoft does stuff like this.