[Bush2000]

If you'd take the time to read the files, you'd know they were far more than a bug. The whole thing is crafted to look bad, while doing nothing would have left the page rendering perfectly.

God knows, an ordinary bug wouldn't make a page "look bad". /SARCASM

If someone had five convictions for burglary and you found him on the premises of burglary in progress, would you automatically assume he's perfectly innocent, or would his past create a strong likelihood he's involved?

Ah, but you're going well beyond presumption. You've already convicted MS. And that's precisely the reason why courts exclude evidence of previous behavior in a court of law.

This isn't Google, which puts ethics at the forefront of everything they do. This is Microsoft, convicted monopolist on two continents and payer of billions in settlements due to unethical and illegal conduct.

Rrrright. This is the same Google that considers search engine optimization bad -- but doesn't hesitate to give preference to its own ads. /SARCASM

[antiRepublicrat]

God knows, an ordinary bug wouldn't make a page "look bad".

I take it you didn't look. That's why you don't know how different the pages were.

Ah, but you're going well beyond presumption. You've already convicted MS.

Oh, I would love for this to go to trial for a conviction because I know that's what they'd get. BTW, I suppose in your mind Saddam Hussein is absolutely innocent of torture, rape, murder and use of chemical weapons on his own people.

This is the same Google that considers search engine optimization bad -- but doesn't hesitate to give preference to its own ads.

Google tries to paint a true picture of what's on the web, so it tries to deny people with optimization knowledge better ranking despite the site's actual popularity. Google never sold search rankings and all ads are prominently labelled as ads.

Now if you want to go into what Microsoft has done, that's going to be a very, very long post.