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Microsoft at Heart of Calls for Software Liability | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: Reuters | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Microsoft Corp. , a company known for its popular software and its very deep pockets -- but also glitches in some products -- is a liability lawyer's dream: the big game target that always gets away. For decades, software makers have been protected from lawsuits as U.S. courts have struggled with the task of defining something as abstract and fast-changing as computer code. But now a growing number of voices within the industry and government are arguing for software to be held to the same standards as other products, a potential reform that puts the world's largest software vendor squarely in its sights. Although it's hard to put a dollar figure on the potential risk to Microsoft, with almost $39 billion in cash and short-term investments, the company would be the obvious deep-pocketed target, said Mark Rasch, a computer and Internet policy lawyer in Bethesda, Maryland, and former head of the U.S. Department of Justice's computer crime unit. | ||
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