Microsoft Redmond senior security analyst Steve Riley... fessed up that Microsoft cocked up XP from a security perspective. "We let you down with XP," he said.
(From this article.)
Why would Microsoft ever say such a thing? Have they finally turned honest and noble?
No!
Recent reports have shown that XP still outsells Vista. MS makes less money on XP. It's suddenly in MS's best interest to slander XP. So that's what we get.
I hate it. Manipulative marketing makes me mad. (What a sentence!) And if you think that little 'slip' was anything other than very well calculated marketing, you're a fool.