Could we sue Microsoft for the time they have wasted?

Back when Bill Gates was getting in to the software business, people used to write their own software on a floppy disc and make duplicate copies to give to their friends.

Bill's idea was to gather a crowd of the best people he could find and pay them to write programs, that would be sold all over the world.

The problem with this is the computer savvy people would buy a program and make copies that they would give to their friends, then Microsoft would not be able to sell a product to people who already had a free copy.

A solution to this problem is put a back door in the program so another user could sneak in, determine that it was a pirate copy and **** up the rest of the program, then a legitimate copy would be sold in a store to replace it.

By making software vulnerable to attack, they have eliminated the pirate copies, but they have also made it possible for others to use viruses, worms,trojans, and other malware.

Has your computer just crashed? This could have happened because your windows O S let in some malware, now you have to buy some software from Kapersky and wait for it to find and block the virus.

This is what windows was designed to do.