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2007 07 12

Microsoft Uses XBox Excuses to Escape Libaility

Why Microsoft Must Come Clean About Xbox 360 Flaws

It is all about trust. But trust is something that is earned over time, and needs to be constantly re-earned through actions. Microsoft has breached the trust of its single most important constituency, its customers, the effects of which are only beginning to be felt. Come clean, Microsoft, because confession is good for business. And it is also the best way of protecting your brand and your customers.

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They now blame people's electrical systems/supplies. Here is a satire: [Satire] Global Warming, Open Source to Blame for Microsoft's Xbox Problems

Microsoft entertainment and device corporate vice president Peter Moore said the problems weren't with the unit itself, but with external factors like "global warming and open source software."

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Related: Experts are calling for product liability for software

"Product liability does not apply to software," Gerald Spindler of the Faculty of Law of the University of Göttingen complained. "But what if a whole company comes to a standstill due to faulty software?" he mused.

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Ah, from the horse's mouth: Microsoft just might be held legally responsible for selling software that is insecure.

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Live Onecare loses own antivirus and a new kernel in SP1

Onecare is an antivirus application as well as antispyware and antiphishing and lord knows what else not-very-well-tested additional functionality. So Onecare effectively lost track of some parts of itself. What is it with Microsoft, they're definitely getting worse.

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Microsoft confirms OneCare zaps Outlook, Outlook Express e-mail

Microsoft Corp. has acknowledged that a bug in its Windows Live OneCare security suite has been causing users' e-mail to vanish from Outlook and Outlook Express.

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Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net

Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers, the BBC reports.

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