Source Code Leaked? [Windows]

[fryke]

An interesting take on the matter indeed. However, there's still going to be enough people interested in the source code in both evil and good ways. (From a Microsoft perspective, both ways are probably evil...)

[Ripcord]

Originally Posted by kendall

Os/2

Not sure if that was a joke or not, OS/2 actually started out as something that Microsoft and IBM were co-developing, until MS dropped out and started writing NT from scratch using much of the experience they learned writing for IBM...

[kendall]

Originally Posted by Ripcord

Not sure if that was a joke or not, OS/2 actually started out as something that Microsoft and IBM were co-developing, until MS dropped out and started writing NT from scratch using much of the experience they learned writing for IBM...

"The Windows NT kernel was partially based on the OS/2 kernel that they created with IBM, and Windows 95 also borrows heavily from this code."

http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/OS2Warp.html

[Quicksilver]

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/p...dowssource.asp

[fryke]

From that article: "Subsequent investigation has shown this was not the result of any breach of Microsoft’s corporate network or internal security, nor is it related to Microsoft’s Shared Source Initiative or its Government Security Program, which enable our customers and partners, as well as governments, to legally access Microsoft source code."

--- Well, what else, then? So it's _not_ from Microsoft's servers, not from Microsoft's shared source initiative and not from the Gov.sec.program. Where else can it have leaked, Microsoft? I find it amusing how they can be so sure that it's not one of the possible solutions. It must be one of the impossible ones, then? ;-)

[Arden]

Yes, it leaked from an impossible source. It was either the sun, Madonna's left nipple or a coconut on a beach in Cancun.

This whole leaking source code for Windows thing wouldn't be such a big deal if Windows weren't so buggy in the first place...

[jonmichael23]

this is all very intriguing. I'm thinking most of the stuff anyone would find in there has already been patched up by microsoft since it is kinda old. [REMOVED DUE TO SITE RULES ABOUT WAREZ BY FRYKE] I would never dream of downloading it tho, i know microsoft and the fbi definately want to track down where it came from and who has it. Also, I heard and have seen some funny quotes of the code, with the words crash,crap, and the f word in quite a lot of them. If theyre real or not, who knows. I still found it quite entertaining

[Cat]

Kuro5hin has a nice review of the comments to the code.