Outsourcing sucks

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Coder unemployed by outsourcing

This is exactly why outsourcing s/w coding is BAD! Microsoft started the whole outsourcing nightmare by busting up its programming tasks for new software development into 'bite size' pieces and outsourcing those bits to 'developing economies'.

It's not surprising that those 'economies' saw that they could exploit the internet for money-making, sales purposes or cyber-crime in future, so they returned code to Micro$oft with security 'holes' already nicely in place!

And now the scammers, spammers and mafia are laughing all the way to the bank in the face of Microsoft's pathetic excuses and attempts to plug those holes, like the child's fable of a little Dutch boy who sticks his thumb in a dyke to stop a flood.

Why can't users sue MS in a large 'class action' (collectively) for all the lost time and money spent on fixing MS s/w bugs and wasted on downtime from using Microsoft products over the past 20 years -- back-dated?!!!