It's the anti-reuse/anti-recycling approach advanced by Microsoft through software alone, but in co-operation with their earliest hardware partners who wanted t

It's the anti-reuse/anti-recycling approach advanced by Microsoft through software alone, but in co-operation with their earliest hardware partners who wanted to sell more gear in the future before then-current models had finally failed to operate electronically. Took a while but Apple eventually caught up as a hardware/software company itself.