content: I think MS is actually very dishonest - they knew about the issue, patched it in the newer versions of Windows, and deliberately left it unpatched in the older systems to force people to upgrade. So even if the NSA had informed them, nothing would have changed. And apart from shifting the blame to the NSA instead of to where it belongs (retarded managers who use outdated insecure systems for important work), I completely agree. You can't produce top notch security for old operating systems no-one pays a cent to update. If you want someone to do something for you, you need to pay something. That's why the banks, who also use XP and such, were not affected: They paid for special upgrades.