Heartbleed Bug at the same time as XP EOL, interesting.

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Is it just me or does it seem kind of fishy that the Heartbleed Bug hit the airwaves at the same time as when XP reached End of Life. When so many folks are going to switch to Linux for their solution to XP reaching EOL to keep an Op System working on their older hardware and the news about the Heartbleed Bug, which effects OpenSSL which is what Linux and other Open Sources stuff uses to make a secure connection uses.
By a strange twist of "fate" MicroSoft doesn't use OpenSSL so it's secure.
I'd almost think it was something planned by MicroSoft to scare folks out of moving to Linux and moving to new hardware with Windows 8.1 instead.

Anyone else think there's more going on here then meets the eye?

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