Demaestro - 4:13 pm on Jun 11, 2010 (gmt 0)

without giving Microsoft adequate time to prepare a patch

Considering that Microsoft has several long standing known un-patched vulnerabilities that stretch years and years I don't blame Google for not having much faith in MS to act quickly if they just reported it to in the private.

That being said there is a high level of irresponsibility in how they went about this.

With Google prepping a desktop Operating System, it would be wise to remember that old saying, "what goes around - comes around".

So true, no OS is without flaws.