A few things:
- Intel isn't going to drop the price of their hardware adapters because of a software issue on a client OS. The feature set works 100% on Windows 7, so, by all means, use it on Windows 7 to your heart's content. This would be akin to saying HP should suddenly drop the price of a printer they have on the market because the scanning feature doesn't work any longer on Windows 10. It's not going to happen, nor should it happen.
- Great, you found somewhere buried in the documentation (that was last updated in March) showing "Windows 10" and "Teaming" on the same page. It's obviously out of date information and someone should get around to updating it. I suppose we agree there, I guess?
- If Microsoft is actively blocking this (hypothetically, stick with me here for a minute), is it not reasonable to assume (don't confuse this with being the right approach, mind you) that Microsoft wouldn't want to get in the middle of this and would prefer to just wait this out and hope that it eventually fades away? Again, if this is the case I think they *should* just out and say that, no doubt. But is it really that shocking to you this isn't high on their priority list to announce if they have no intention of this sort of functionality being supported within Windows 10 any longer (for whatever stupid reason that may be)?
- Have you actually taken a look at the Microsoft thread I linked earlier? If you haven't, take a look, you might learn something. Or not, whatever you want.
- There is this vibe you're putting off that I simply don't get. Seems to me like you're working under the assumption that Carl_Wilson is just somehow not giving you the "real deal" here or maybe just isn't working hard enough on this issue. If that's your position, do you think he's just a glutton for punishment and that he provides these periodic updates because it's good for his blood pressure or something? If he and/or Intel really didn't give two hoots about this issue, why would he be dragging it on? Why wouldn't Intel simply lock this thread and throw away the key. Seriously, why would he respond at all anymore and give any sort of updates about this? Just to screw with everyone? Doesn't make sense.
PS: I originally suggested you file a lawsuit because you seem pretty sure that Intel has some exposure here and I just want to make sure you cash in on your big settlement do you can go buy a bunch of Realtek cards and relish in their exceptional performance. Who knows, if you have 10 Realtek cards you might be able to agg enough together to get a full 1GbE worth of traffic through them!