Yeah, I did factor that into consideration. However, planned obsolescence is fairly unethical also and many European nations are legislating to force companies into stating how long they believe their products should last for. And in Australia our consumer law deliberately uses the word &quot;reasonable&quot; to prevent companies from setting arbitrary time limits on product warranty specifically to limit unreasonable attempts at planned obsolescence.<p>In terms of Windows having bugs - unless you are a dyed in the wool conspiracy theorist who hates everything Microsoft stands for then it&#x27;s fairly self evident that Microsoft doesn&#x27;t <i>intentionally</i> introduce bugs into their products.<p>But a Tobacco company exists solely to hook their customers on their products. There sure is planned obsolescence, but the ones who they plan on becoming obsolete and thus discarded are their customers!