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Kalium on Jan 16, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google discloses another Windows security issue af...

> others that Microsoft would just put off fixes forever if Google didn't do this.

People wouldn't think that if MS didn't have a long history of doing exactly that.

throwawaykf05 on Jan 16, 2015 [–]

What security fixes has Microsoft put off forever?

MertsA on Jan 16, 2015 | [–]

They are obviously much better about this now but back when IE was the browser du jour there were tons of bugs that took ages for them to fix.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/01/critical_...

Kalium on Jan 16, 2015 | | [–]

Often they would dismiss a bug until someone exploited it to make a worm.

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