Too many people are emotionally invested in this topic making it impossible to have a technical discussion about it.
When the emotionally invested decide to wreck threads with posts which are off topic, and then others follow suit, there is no point in keeping the thread open.
Some people would be better served by reading Microsoft's own forums about the issues, for any of their operating systems, rather than turn a blind eye to the issues. Then again, emotionally invested people would not last long there. Just a heads up, if any of you decide to peruse those forums.