Originally Posted by downquark1

Sometimes I think the mainstream journalists are on another planet. Ones that spring to mind is the report that wireless networks are used to share neighbours internet connections... years after they became commercial. I thought of that application the second I knew of the technology, and I must have been 14 at the time.

Another one is this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6971904.stm

As for software liability, I would like to see that in some major cases, such as why NVIDIA drivers were so poor on vista dispite the huge amount of time they had to develop them, I suspect responsibility lies more with the managers.

But most bugs are going to be too expensive to track down. A lot of bugs that appear to be faults in windows are often the fault of third-party software that has altered something it shouldn't have.