Microsoft is no stranger to Windows source code leaks, but a new incident might just provide insights into its history. Bleeping Computer and ZDNet report that a 4chan user has posted what’s believed ...
Software king of the world Microsoft has just seen the source code for its most successful software leaked online. Windows XP might have gone beyond its shelf life years ago, but it is still under the ...
When it comes to Microsoft Windows, there are many versions that are iconic for different reasons. Windows 3.1 liberated the mainstream from the DOS prompt, and Windows 95 felt like the future had ...
Microsoft probably won’t be happy about that. It seems the source code for Windows XP has leaked online. In addition to Windows XP, the leak includes the source code for Windows Server 2003 and other ...
Reports hit the Web last week that the Windows XP source code has been leaked and posted to 4chan, one of the seediest boards not on the dark web. A link to a 42.9GB file was posted but quickly ...
I vote it's not relevant. People working on "clean room" reverse engineering Windows (Wine, Samba, ReactOS) don't want the legal risk associated with leaked code. Microsoft has shown Windows source ...
If you feel like cracking into nearly 20-year-old operating systems for what we'll describe as "various and sundry" reasons, the source code for both Windows XP and ...
Sometimes companies release the source code for their software on purpose. Sometimes… they don’t. While Microsoft has embraced open source in a big way in recent years, the company generally holds on ...
The purported source code for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 has been made available online as torrents via various file sharing sites. Just ahead of the weekend the files became publically ...