Microsoft Admits Flaw in Windows Software
Wed Jul 16, 5:33 PM ET
At the product's launch in late April, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer declared the new version of Windows to be a "breakthrough in terms of what it means, in terms of its built-in security and reliability."
The flaw, discovered by researchers in western Poland, also affected Windows versions popular among home users.
Although the Polish researchers created a tool to demonstrate the more serious vulnerability and break into victim computers, they promised not to release blueprints for such software onto the Internet.
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