[Leaning Right]

This Microsoft document should be of some interest to liability lawyers. A company is well-aware of a product defect, but decides not to fix this defect. The defect later causes a consumer a financial loss.

I suppose buried somewhere in the software agreement is a clause absolving Microsoft of any such liability. But to deliberately ignore a known flaw, I don’t know if such a clause would hold water.

(I hope not as Bill Gates and Friends...not my favorite people.)

[dayglored]

> I suppose buried somewhere in the software agreement is a clause absolving Microsoft of any such liability. But to deliberately ignore a known flaw, I don’t know if such a clause would hold water.

Well, from the article:

The document also explains that it rates bugs on a five-step scale - Critical, Important, Moderate, Low, and None – and that Microsoft only fixes Critical and Important flaws.