How they created a worldwide stink
Jully 19, 2024 saw the world shaken up by a blunder whose epicentre was in Microsoft. Even several days after the gory incident, no one dared to pull up the original culprits. The escapade was made easy with some clever/cunning design by Microsoft, although no one notices the flaw in their own short-sighted decisions in choosing Microsoft products, which ALWAYS come with their “masterpiece of deception”: EULA.
- EULA is a kind of shield used to defend and protect the cunning culprit. The EULA, forced on every user of Microsoft products, is the first evidence of such a crooked mindset.
- EULA cleverly changes a vendor-user relationship to a licensor-licensee relationship. The user /licensee does not own the product, thus depriving him of all the usual user privileges. This is further complicated by the concept of “software as a service”, promoted by Microsoft.
- Thus the user gets no warranty on the product or any assurance of its expected flawlessness.
EULA purports to supplant traditional consumer protection and products liability laws. Yet, users blindly strike the “I agree” button for all EULAs. This is akin to wrapping the noose around one’s own neck.- The user has no way to claim any compensation for the damage, chaos or distress caused by the defective product. Neither can they initiate any legal action against the offending culprit, since they have “agreed” to all the terms of the EULA, before starting to use the product. The noose is already in place. You know what will follow next.
The crowd-strike disaster of 19 July 2024 was caused by an “update” to the anti-virus software of Windows10 of Microsoft. The remedy turned out to be deadlier than the disease, and the world paid for it.
Who are the real culprits ? The cunning vendor who planted the stink ? or the gullible users who chose this vendor ? The cancer will end, only when we stop patronising such cunning vendors.
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