[Dominic Harr]

I believe that this bug was unknown by Microsoft until they were told about it.

Did you read the reports?

MS was told about this defect 5 weeks ago. They continued to sell XP during that time without informing customers of the product defect they knew existed.

They could have informed customers to just turn the feature off. But doing so -- admitting XP had defects -- would have hurt MS's sales.

So to benefit MS's sales, they refused to warn consumers of a known defect in the XP product.

Can we allow a manufacturer to act this way? That's illegal.

[tje]

Dominic I think the problem here is with your definition of defect. A software bug and, let's keep in mind, an unexploited bug, is hard to call a defect.

Is there one reported incident of any person encountering this defect other than some hackers? Was anyone harmed by it?

I stand by my statement, your expectations are unreasonable. I do not care for MS, but I think they've handled this well.

[zog]

--I don't have it saved or anything, but they knew about this at least as far back as august I think, saw it on wired or some site like that.