Who is responsible for the user data corruption?
In two separate communications, Net Census has asked Microsoft Corporation for comments and suggested that an internal investigation might be appropriate. Unless it is supposed that outsiders somehow inserted malicious code into official company releases of Office software, the responsible parties are or were within the company. The two most likely possibilities may be industrial sabotage by employees or the scandal of management approval of what many consider to be a fundamentally dishonest practice. Time-bomb theory The time-bomb theory supposes that renegade staff within Microsoft managed to insert malicious code into Microsoft Office to corrupt user data saved to disk. The time-bomb of these rogue programmers would explode when user data corruption was disclosed, resulting in a public relations disaster for Microsoft Corporation. In this scenario, Microsoft may be a victim of industrial sabotage by company insiders. Several arguments support the time-bomb theory. For the “time” par