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MS sources leak (Announce)

posted by glennmcc Homepage E-mail, North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 30.09.2020, 06:20

> This maybe on the edge to mention this here and censor will delete this but
> you might noticed a fresh source code leak from MS in recent days. There's
> floating a torrent that contains total 43GB (most of GBs not important
> but...) and it contains newly the sources of WinXP SP1 and W2k3 server.
> Also there are older sources of Win2k, NT 4, 3.5, CE3-5 and MSDOS 3.3 and
> 6.0. Could be interesting for devels, now you can look at the source intead
> of disassembly :). Someone on Winraid forum already tried to compile XP but
> found that some parts like winlogon are missing :( Also to mention that SP1
> was quite crap and too old, SP2 brought significantly more stability and
> safety. Maybe MS did it intentionally to terrify the small rest of XP users
> forcing them upgrade to 'better and safe W10' baceuse evil hackers will now
> find a bunch of exploits for XP... :)
re: "...forcing them upgrade..."

I would not put it past M$ to have done exactly that. ;-)

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