Did Microsoft already know about the .WMF flaw?

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Hi,

Does anyone know why the .WMF flaw doesn't show up when Internet Explorer
directly displays a .WMF file?  Is possible that the Internet Explorer team
knew about the flaw and programmed around it?  Or is there another
explanation?  If the problem was known about inside of Microsoft, how come
the Picture and FAX viewer team didn't get the word?  I'm having trouble
understanding why some programs are affected by the bug and others are not
when the underlying problem is in gdi32.dll.

Richard M. Smith
http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com
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