“We Are Morons” – A quick look at the Win2k source (2004)
> private\inet\wininet\urlcache\filemgr.cxx:
> // ACHTUNG!!! this is a special hack for IBM antivirus software<p>Why should Microsoft produce a hack for an IBM antivirus product? That IBM software might be used by a few tens of thousands of people for a few years, whereas Win2k impacted billions of people and will continue to do so.<p>At some point it is likely the programmer, PM, and maybe even the bug tracker behind this code may have moved on, and a newer generation of contributors will have to waste time understanding the bug, and deciding to support it or not. Possibly without ever knowing if IBM has fixed their own bug, or still uses that antivirus software or not.