[lodonnell9213]

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...