I am not sure that I buy this story. A second source would be good.

I was really enjoying Windows 10 and got beat up on HN after defending it last week. That said a few days ago I switched from having 3 linux laptops and 1 windows 10 laptop to having 4 linux laptops.

I think that Microsoft, after fixing some privacy issues, has a winner in Windows 10 but I decided to just make my life simpler.