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by dspillett 711 days ago
People saying “too dangerous to release” usually means one (or more) of three things:

1. “… but if you and your big rich company were to acquihire us you'd get access…” — though as this is MS it probably isn't that!

2. That is only works as well as claimed in specific circumstances, or has significant flaws, so they don't want people looking at it too closely just yet. The wordage “in benchmarks used by Microsoft” might point to this.

3. That a competitor is getting close to releasing something similar, or has just done so, and they don't want to look like they were in second place or too far behind.