Well you will excuse me for not believing or taking this all at face value. Why the h*ll would Microsoft go to all the trouble and expense of having added outbound protection to Vista and Win7 firewall when it doesn’t work.

They could have left it just the same as the XP firewall which didn’t have any outbound protection, disabled or otherwise.

This article if anything just shows how much of a pain in the ass rules creation can be and if it doesn’t work why bother.

There is also something wrong on that page as a) I can’t find your quoted text and b) it appears to be incomplete, tails off to an untidy end in mid sentence (firefox 5.0.1). Edit same problem on IE8.