Microsoft Gives Windows Device Makers Their 2017 Marching Orders (zdnet.com)

Microsoft officials have some fairly specific ideas about what they want their Windows-device-making partners to build in calendar 2017. From a report: Microsoft wants its OEMs and ODMs to make more Windows 10 detachables, convertibles, and ultraslims. They also are advising their partners to make devices and peripherals that highlight the "hero experiences" of Windows 10 involving Cortana, Windows Hello authentication, and Windows Ink. And another wish-list topper: Microsoft is looking for more Windows 10 PCs that can power mixed-reality peripherals and that are ready for gamers and "media fanatics."

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Re:Can't we just get PCs with Windows 7?

[iampiti]

To get something like Win 7 you'd also have to remove the following things:
- Ads for Office and Edge built into the OS.
- The infamous telemetry that can't be completely turned off.
- The annoying push to use MS' services (Ms account for login, Cortana, Bing, the Store...)
- The "bug" that resets your default applications to Ms' ones every major update.
- The inability to reject updates.
- The built-for-touch apps that are the defaults (and, in some cases like the Settings app, the only option) even on desktops without touchscreens.