Why Microsoft Must Come Clean About Xbox 360 Flaws
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| 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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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070711/40669_id.html?.v=2
They now blame people's electrical systems/supplies. Here is a satire:
[Satire] Global Warming, Open Source to Blame for Microsoft's Xbox Problems
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| 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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http://www.bbspot.com/News/2007/07/microsoft-blames-global-warming-open-source-xbox-360-problems.html
Related:
Experts are calling for product liability for software
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| "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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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/86932/from/rss09
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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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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2006112223522439
Live Onecare loses own antivirus and a new kernel in SP1
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| 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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http://crunchysoftware.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/live-onecare-loses-own-antivirus-and-a-new-kernel-in-sp1/
http://tinyurl.com/2ely8a
Microsoft confirms OneCare zaps Outlook, Outlook Express e-mail
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| 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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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012499
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| 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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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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