Foxnews.com had a story about this yesterday, I sent the link to my friends and family.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,180244,00.html
You're right, this one is gonna be a major problem until they get a patch issued.
Don't you love MS development strategy? "Get it to market first, then finish programming."
I've been in the software development business for over 20 years. Trust me, MS is not the only company that this applies to.
But you are never really "finished programming". And at some point, you have to release or you will never get a product out the door.
If everything released was "finished", wouldn't everything be at version 1.0 - heck, version numbers wouldn't even be necessary.
Is Linux "finshed"? Oracle? etc. etc.
I'm not trying to absolve MS, but I don't hold them up to any higher standard than I would any other company because I've been on the other side of things, and there is NO major piece of software out there that is perfectly written.
But you'd think so if you read the various anti-MS blogs - you find all of the perfect programmers there who never have written code with a bug in their lives. :-)
What i naive comment. EVERY company releases software before it is finished: name one that doesn't.
No one who programs can say that their software is complete and bug-free. Hell, even if it's just 1 line of code you still can't be certain due to the code that runs under yours.
Program a little, put it in production, and see how much crap people find: it is truly astonishing. Do it without a profit motive and they will actually find more because you aren't as careful.
I suspect it's worse than that. Probably something more like. "Start coding, we'll design it later"