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August 22, 2013 By AMK

Auditors fault Navy Microsoft agreement over warranty disclaimer

Defense Department auditors are faulting a Navy Department enterprise license  agreement for Microsoft Software for accepting license terms they say weren’t in the best interest of the department.

In May 2012, the Navy signed a $700 million enterprise agreement with Microsoft in a bid to consolidate its licenses with the software giant.

However, one of auditors’ two criticisms rests on the Navy having accepted a Microsoft disclaimer that the company  disclaimed an implied warranty, refusing to guarantee the merchantability of its software, fitness for a particular purpose, or quality — a disclaimer that software vendors routinely press for since those terms are actually fraught with ambiguity when it comes to software.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/auditors-fault-navy-microsoft-agreement-over-warranty-disclaimer/2013-08-08

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: DoD, FAR, fitness, IG, implied warranties, information technology, merchantability, Navy, quality, technology, UCC, warranty

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