I can now say for certain Microsoft is going to get a huge backlash for this.
Nope. Most of the consumer/home user userbase won't give a shit about it because they quite simply don't give a shit about the OS internals, as long as their machines boot up correctly.
Enterprise is more tricky, but most medium/big-sized companies likely order prebuilts and laptops with exact same configuration in the dozens, hundreds or thousands. Just make a disk image and clone it.
And both large enterprise and small businesses don't want to get into the new stuff right off the bat. Enterprise would only do so for security reasons, and small businesses straight out stay away from it if not needed.
The only backlash I'd expect is what was mentioned before, EU or FTC. And even then, between the clean install requirement and the switch to toggle it off, Microsoft is probably in the clean.
What are you doing Micro$oft?!
They're a corporation, they're in it for the money. Writing "Micro$oft" is stating the obvious.
First you blocked people now you want them to reinstall, reinstall really?
And yet here almost everyone is complaining about how this is turning into 1984. Which, yeah, I can see the logic for people to think that.
So, no, I doubt the reinstall is gonna be a real issue. If anything, I think most here are quite happy that they need to do that before Smart App Control even works.
That settles it i am going Linux the moment it can run all my games you can go downhill for all i care.
Yeah, sure, whatever. You do you.