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Agree 100%. MS has also relied very heavily on the OEMs for a long long time to bring in revenue every year with new hardware announcements, thus new licenses, but PC and desktop sales have been declining for sometime in lieu of non-Windows smartphones and tablets. MS missed the boat here and therefore a ton of revenue. Additionally the Enterprise customer has been very reluctant to throw huge chucks of capital at new hardware for several years now and have been either velcroved to XP or W7. The Enterprise full price licenses are an enormous revenue cow for MS and they do not get the free upgrade to W10. MS just recently kicked the OEMs in the head with the Surface Book announcement, so it appears that MS is starting to sever that relationship as the PC/desktop market continues its decline. IF you want a W10 laptop/tablet and phone - get it directly from the MS Store - cut out the middle man and the OEM bloat. I think MS declared war - but it has gone somewhat unnoticed. W10 is the flagship so they are pushing it with gusto - even to those that do not want it.