I didn't say that they did it on purpose. My point is that this is incredibly stupid, especially for an organisation of that size and the projected fine. Yes, w

I didn't say that they did it on purpose. My point is that this is incredibly stupid, especially for an organisation of that size and the projected fine. Yes, we usually don't test for edge cases, but the 7 billion edge-case? So how was this allowed happen? Also, I don't think that this was not reported for 15 months. The problem only became widely known after the EU actually decided for a formal investigation. I found no coverage about when the problem was reported. The 28 million-number is rather irrelevant, as the news coverage states that all of windows 7 SP 1 was affected, so they failed at a major release level. It wasn't 2% of the release or something. This could even have been cought by manual testing. I don't care how important the ballot is in the real world (for the record: I hate the ruling). But this is one of the biggest companies in the world failing to comply with a pretty clear rule that came out of the most expensive ruling ever dropped on them.