dstiles - 10:24 pm on Jun 16, 2010 (gmt 0)

How about this explanation?

Google security has banned the use of Windows.

No one told them that googlebot is run from Windows machines.

Google bot-herders discovered bots weren't working and asked MS to cover for them.

:) :) :)

Well, it's as daft as a lot of things google is doing nowadays.