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"The chaos surprised many security watchers because Microsoft issued an update in March that patched the underlying vulnerability in Windows 7 and most other supported versions of Windows. (Windows 10 was never vulnerable.)"

source: https://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2017/05/wcry-microsoft-is...

So I don't really know what you mean by 'hoarding the fix'. The patch was not initially released to some OS versions because they are NO LONGER supported.

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I believe the "hoarding the fix" comment was in reference to the patches for Server 2003, XP, and Windows 8 that were released publicly for the first time over the weekend (but had been distributed previously to customers paying for custom support) [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14329914

I guess I don't see it that way. Extended support (which includes security patches) are only for paying customers.

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