>A month prior, on March 14, Microsoft had released a security update to patch this vulnerability and protect our customers. While this protected newer Windows systems and computers that had enabled Windows Update to apply this latest update, many computers remained unpatched globally.
They stopped supporting Windows XP years ago, including with security updates.
There are still around 100 million computers around the world running XP.
It seems irresponsible to just leave them to hang out to dry when there are that many machines out there running it. A virus seems inevitable if they do. And shifting the blame onto the customers is not reasonable when there are still 100 million customers who are "doing it wrong" by not upgrading to a later version of Windows.
This entire article pertains to directly shifting the blame onto their customers, and the governments of the affected countries (!)
>The fact that so many computers remained vulnerable two months after the release of a patch illustrates this aspect
Again, XP systems are the most affected, and there was no patch released for XP. This is extremely irresponsible of Microsoft and this article shifting the blame onto everyone but themselves is reprehensible.