If you are on the MS payroll, you have an indefinite contract to do what MS tells you to do - produce MS software.
If you are a so called contractor, you have a limited time/scope contract to produce MS software.
In either case it is MS's responsibility to make sure that the SW does what it is supposed to do for the customer (functionality, lack of bugs etc.) AND to make sure it does not violate other people's intellectual property.
Blaming someone else is just a pathetic attempt at deflecting responsibility as far as I am concerned. If you are paid by MS, directly or indirectly, to produce MS SW, that SW is MS's responsibility, full stop.
This is just another sleazy aspect of the MS DNA.
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