[estimator7292]

If windows borks itself how many people will just give up and buy a new computer? That's Microsoft's entire game right now with obsoleting perfectly good hardware.

But yes, this one is most likely just plain incompetence

[Gigachad]

Microsoft destroying your computer with bugs is just as likely to make someone go buy a MacBook.

[forgotTheLast]

That's the lesson anyone who works as tech support for their tech-illiterate relatives learns eventually.