Not really. They aren't the ones directing customers to break their systems. They could ban anti-virus software and get slammed for being anti-competitive I suppose. Or they could try to track down all the vendors who are being stupid and ask them to please stop but that probably won't remediate it. They don't have a lot of moves here nor does the curl project.

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But Microsoft are not advising them to remove curl AFAIK, in that case Microsoft should fix every issue ever within Windows, even if its self inflicted.

End of the day this as Daniel says is scare mongering by others who don't know what they are doing.

The phrase, if someone told you to jump off a cliff, would you?, and, Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should...