The articles that are included in the news stories I get in my email every morning can be term "interesting" sometimes.

Information Week reported on Tuesday, that some guy in San Diego was suing Microsoft because Halo3 was causing his XBox360 to crash.

This pertains to the gaming industry, certainly, but was it truly news-worthy? Well, why am I blogging it then? Mainly because I think there are two sides to this. On the one hand is the view that frivolous law-suits are the reason our legal system is in the state it is in. On the other hand, shouldn't consumers expect games to work? Should someone have tried to sue Microsoft for the way Windows crashed? Would we have better software if someone did? Why is it accepted practice for software to ship with bugs?

As a gamer, the burden of proof is on us when we bring a game home and we find the disk is damaged. That was an issue with the packaging of the Halo3 special edition and Microsoft offered to replace the disks. I once had a review copy of an MMOG shipped to me from a Developer. When I ripped open the sealed CD-key envelope, it was empty. Imagine trying to convince a retailer of that!