<A target="_blank" href="http://www.cio.com/article/601185/Microsoft_s_Bug_Reports_Fail_to_Produce_Prompt_Patches?source=rss_news&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cio%2Farticles+%28CIO+-+Articles%29">The idea was, if Microsoft's engineers found a software bug </A>in something like a library, they'd report it to companies building consumer software so they could fix their code. However, it hasn't worked quite as planned.