That looks like a politics discusion, but I'm happy to have it here. Microsoft's monopoly position, software ownership and gross negligence make it a just target as outrage over insecure software grows. The trick will be making sure that "gross negligence" does not get turned into another anti-competitive tool that harms free software and the industry in general.
There's going to be more of this, and it's not going to depend on user action: http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/19/1824221.shtml If nothing changes, you and I will pay for it through banking fees, taxes and currency devaluation.
