Did Google disclose huge Desktop bug adequately?

An anonymous reader writes: I was shocked when my manager at work called me and told me that I had used 21Gb of bandwidth in March accessing https://google.com./ After doing some investigating, I discovered that the culprit was a bug in Google Desktop from 2006. Google patched the bug, but most of the discussion about it was in a newsgroup. In the meantime, the old version of Google Desktop sat on my machine, like a ticking bomb, and when conditions were right, it went berserk. (Yes I know it was in beta, but the term "beta" has become so abused that we take it for granted that the software won't go crazy.) Google Desktop has since been banned from our network, and everyone's faith in Google has been dented. I will certainly be wary of Google software in future — their failure to adequately disclose a huge bug in their software is worrying to anyone who considers deploying it in the enterprise.