The burden of software liability is something that M$ wants. It’s a variation of the usual extortion or ‘indemnification’ marketing. Like any other tool, the burden is on the user. Or in this case, the user is not the end-user who sits at the screen trying to get some other job done but the IT departments or consulting.

Few other tools require liability worries by the maker — except in the case of standards. The failure with standards is also small part of the failure with security. However, there is a model already for regular tools to have liability requirements to comply with specific industry standards.

Forget suing Microsoft for these security failures. It’s products acting as they have been designed: buggy, bloated, and fatally insecure. Sue the socks off of the managers that signed off on the Microsoft roll outs and the ‘IT’ staff that went along with it.