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Microsoft is not very happy with Google right now Google publicly announced that there is a security flaw in Windows 10 that hackers are exploiting and Microsoft does not have a patch for it yet here's why this is controversial tech companies tend to have this understood agreement between one another that when a flaw is found you tell the company's security team privately and you don't go blabbing about it to the world right away thereby giving the company time to fix it if you advertise the flaw before there's a fix you're inviting more hackers to take advantage of the bug and the blog post google says it did give Microsoft ten days to do something about it but since Microsoft has not patched it yet Google felt it was important to tell the world why because hackers are already taking advantage of the flaw some experts argue that ten days is not enough time to code test and patch bugs in something complex like an operating system Microsoft commented in a statement two VentureBeat saying Google's actions could put Microsoft customers at potential risk the bug also involves Adobe Flash Adobe patched the problem on its end you can best protect yourself by updating your Flash software but until Microsoft releases of fix through a system update Windows 10 users are still susceptible to an attack I'm Bridget Carey you can keep up with the top tech stories at cnet.com slash you