[ossig] Secret Windows Code Leaked On Internet

[Nan Phin <nplee@xxxxxxxxx>]

is it something planned??

FEBRUARY 13, 2004
Incomplete portions of Windows NT and Windows 2000 source code were
"illegally made available on the Internet," Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla
said late yesterday.

...
Those who say they have downloaded the source code claim to have a 200MB compressed file that
expands into roughly 600MB of code. Microsoft officials told industry analysts that this is roughly correct
and that it represents about 15% of Windows source code. 

Wilcox said a much greater percentage of the Windows code may have leaked. "It was my understanding
that Windows 2000 was about 35 million lines of code." People who have seen the leaked code say it
contains about 13.5 million lines. 
...

http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,90200,00.html?nlid=AM


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best wishes.
/nan phin

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