Meandering through the Microsoft NDA maze

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Companies love to slap NDAs on partners and customers as well as those of us who write about them so folks wont blab before theyre allowed about whats coming and when. NDAs are especially onerous when Microsoft and other companies attempt to enforce them for even those products and technologies that are no longer secret. (Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 come readily to mind here.)

NDAs can be minefield. If one person breaks a Microsoft NDA, is the information covered by it subsequently considered public? Thats one of many gray areas Ive encountered myself.