Well, MS contributes to Samba http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-contributes-open-source-code-to-samba/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-contributes-

Well, MS contributes to Samba http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-contributes-open-source-code-to-samba/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-contributes-open-sour... MS seems to have a financial incentive in having, at least, the file sharing part of samba working. Its probably too important to ignore, and at the time, samba was how OSX talked to Windows. I imagine making Samba work was also a move to keep OSX server from becoming an enterprise competitor. Also, I think research and netsec departments in large companies have their own priorities. Why is google finding MS vulnerabilities? I imagine a lot of this is whatever scratches the researcher's itch.