Has LO become subject to a modern variant of AARD code? [closed]

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AARD code is a prehistoric reference for many of the folks reading this (17 April 1992). However, consider the following:-

I've been asking & answering questions on ask.lo since May 30 2015. Sometime after the beginning, but recently more & more, I have noticed that a certain kind of question pops up, something like the following:-

"Please help me with <an-unbelievably-stupid-behaviour> that I'm getting with Windows-<xx>"

"Windows-<xx>" = winVista, 7, 8 and especially 10. UAC errors strongly suspected.

Examples of "<an-unbelievably-stupid-behaviour>" include:

• "A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available." (win7, Q200)
• (on a new install of win7, no prior OO/LO install) (paraphrase): "please close LibreOffice 3.4" (Q2333)
• "freezes when I try too use the format menu" (win10)
• "when I double-click the MSI install file it does nothing" (newly reinstalled Vista)
• "application was unable to start correctly" (win10)
• "applications hangs" (win10)
• "Error 1402. Could not open key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE32\SOFTWARE\...|SharedDlls" (win8.1)
• "installer does not have sufficient rights" (win7)

Now also under Mac:

• ""LibreOffice" will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash." (El Capitan, Q60334)

Possible Tags:-

• error-1310
• error-1316
• error-1335
• error-1402
• error-1714

I've used, supported & programmed Windows since MS-DOS days, including for the major UK computer distributor. I therefore know how bad Windows can get. But I've never seen a range of problems like this before.

At first I blamed the LO developers for being too inept to program UAC Windows. Then I took to describing lo-5 under win10 as "a total dog". Then I remembered that M$ has history in this business. After all, M$-Office is one of (if not the best) money-earner for M$, and LO is probably the greatest threat to M$'s income.

Which brings us back to AARD code & some prime examples of M$'s tendency to use any underhand, technological method that they can find to undermine their competitors. In brief:

In the days of MS-DOS & PC-DOS, and just as Windows-3 was due to be released, DR-DOS was the greatest threat to M$ incomes. Windows was considered to be the future, but DOS was what paid the bills.

DR-DOS was owned by Digital Research (then by Novell, then by Caldera); it was a far better version of DOS than MS or PC-DOS. Crucially, the early Windows required DOS to function. The utter fear for M$ was that folks would use DR-DOS rather than MS/PC-DOS. M$ placed the legendary AARD code into the win-code to prevent that from happening. Further, they then obscured the code to prevent it being found.

PS
The settlement with Caldera paid in November 2009 was $280 million. M$ income in 2009/10 was $19 billion on $62 billion revenue.

So:- has that happened again? Is M$ deliberately causing install/usage errors for LO under modern Windows?

2015-10-17 update:

One mechanism for the infection would be Windows Update (see Q5271, lo-3.6) (a very nice epidemiological ... (more)