This is part of what the problem was - I was taking this into consideration (any hydrocarbon polymer is feed stock). It also was never just oil that...
I can't comment on Windows 8 functionality or whether it's good or bad, however I can comment on the backgrounds to what goes on with OS production....
You also suggested that you couldn't see how it might have accumulated bioticaly, lending credence to abiotic oil. But there's something you need to...