My understanding is that MS has abandoned Silverlight to be phased out.

Good, now if only HTML5 would phase out flash... (I know, wishful thinking, but one can dream)

It is happening, for video at least. I don't play Flash games and the like but I know that it is possible to create games in HTML5 which surpass what Flash is capable of so it should just be a matter of time though I don't know how difficult HTML5 is to develop in so perhaps it will take a while for people to learn and toolkits to adapt. See the Bananabread demo, a 1st person shooter, for examples of what can be done in the browser nowadays.

Until they can present valid choice it is not choice but something else..

@enorbet I don't think there is much to investigate, as these errors are not really very common, and on multiple machines. Especially Firefox tends to silently crash on some occassions. The other things I was referring to were the screen mode switch that happens when you between a virtual terminal and X; and indeed the use of virtual memory, which in my experience is smoother on Windows (and Arch Linux, which takes a Windows-like approach).

As far as I heard, it does do the normal browsing pretty well. I think what they consider "full function" is extras in my eyes... because I wouldn't use it as my default browser anyway, and only for displaying pages that they didn't bother to test on other browsers. What irks me is that Edge, like Chrome, is rolling their own Flash, meaning Flash will not die for coming decennia.
When I install Windows, one of the perks is having a browser that web devs built for. In this area I prefer IE over Edge and Chrome, because of the advertising ID.

They are certainly not doing so, because they are so nice. They are expecting to make money off of it. Data-mining, advertising, cutting costs in maintenance, and pushing programs by subscription.

As far as I know, there aren't going to be any service packs anymore, but I will definitely wait until Windows 10 has matured more. If Windows 10 is indeed going to be the final Windows brand, there is no rush for me. One of the reasons MS is giving Windows 10 away for a limited time is because they need people to test their new programs. As a comparison with Debian normal Windows users will be in the unstable branch and corporate users on the stable branch.
It wouldn't surprise me, if Windows 10's "seemless care-free" update system would need a major manual upgrade and be a de facto Service Pack at some point.

@Arcane Hadn't heard that expression before, but it is on point.

@Arcane : ) interesting link reminding me somehow of

"So what are we going to do today, Brain?"

"Well, Pinky, same thing we do everyday - Try to take over the world!"

Narf

Troz!