"PC software is unreliable as to be otherwise would push the price up" - as a software engineer it is infuriating to read things like this. It is simply not true. For example, the Apache web server software, which runs pprune.org, ba.com, and so on, costs not a penny. However, as long as certain Large Software Companies can get away with selling unreliable crud, helped by statements such as the above, they will.
Apologies if this is out of place. I shall retreat to the SLF and computer forums again.