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.

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