Your first sentence is a bit bewildering. I’ve been in IT security for 10 years. Do you think that vulnerabilities are all uncovered by accident in the wild?
My first sentence is not bewildering, you’ve misidentified the vacuum. The vacuum isn’t “uncovered by accident(or even with intent) in the wild” versus “uncovered in a Microsoft lab”. The vacuum is this: Anti-conservative versus not anti-conservative. Microsoft is a known actor in the anti-conservative field.
I think you’re going out of your way to refuse to admit to yourself that Microsoft is a prime example of the evils of Big Tech in general and the anti-conservative nature of Big Tech in particular. Once you can admit to yourself that Microsoft really doesn’t like people who hold our points of view and actively works against those of us, then you’ll have a much easier go of understanding your original quandary.
The worst part of it is they take our money and then they weaponize it against us. That’s the worst outrage of all of it.