Windows XP Source Code Has Just Been Leaked on 4chan

[LiD]

Does it come with those hilarious comments about how bad the MS code and coders are?

It seems to me that proprietary code can't be perfect in principle.

[Gaer Boy]

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[LiD]

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Super!

[JayM]

If they'd included Windows 10 it should have been a picture of the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland.

[LiD]

If they'd included Windows 10 it should have been a picture of the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland.

I have a close friend who is obsessed with the privacy of his data. And he stubbornly modifies Windows 10 LTSB. I do not know how much time he spent on this, but I think that during this time he could have already conducted a thorough security audit of some linux distribution. ))

[oops]

If they'd included Windows 10 it should have been a picture of the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland.

I have a close friend who is obsessed with the privacy of his data. And he stubbornly modifies Windows 10 LTSB. I do not know how much time he spent on this, but I think that during this time he could have already conducted a thorough security audit of some linux distribution. ))

It's impossible, in theory, the leaks can also be from the hardware, not only from the software.

[LiD]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot

[paul1149]

I'm of the opinion that Windows has steadily gotten better over the years, but with serious hiccups along the way. Vista was nowhere near as bad as its rep - it's like the Ford Edsel - except that it was rather poor on resources. But the difference between Vista and Seven isn't so great, except that the Vista fixes were never made, they were put into 7 (there was another operating system to sell, after all). Win8 was a step forward under the hood, but the GUI was such an unmitigated disaster that the package was completely unacceptable. 8.1, with Classic Shell, remained my best Windows for quite a while. I wouldn't use Win10 for a couple of years, but now I think it's workable with the right settings.

The consistent problem behind all this has been MS's greed for both money and power. It wasn't enough to be part of or even lead the tech revolution, it had to control it. The money angle was more blatant back in the day, with its pricing and its activation, which could be onerous. But now it's more subtle, and thus more dangerous. I'm not against the workman being paid for his labor, but it's a shame that so much technological advance got trapped for so long within the confines of Bill Gates' wallet, while open source struggled. But it seems to me that OS is now taking the upper hand.

[timkb4cq]

The worst Windows distro was Windows 98se which holds the title of the most unstable piece of garbage and the most Blue Screen Of Deaths.

You must have never tried its immediate successor, Windows Millenium.
I had a very stable 98se install and had encountered others. I've never seen a stable Windows ME machine.

[uncle mark]

The worst Windows distro was Windows 98se which holds the title of the most unstable piece of garbage and the most Blue Screen Of Deaths.

You must have never tried its immediate successor, Windows Millenium.
I had a very stable 98se install and had encountered others. I've never seen a stable Windows ME machine.

I've used all of them since W95 (save for W10), either personally or in the workplace. ME was a mistake. It was a beta for XP. Vista got a bad rap based on MSFT selling out to Intel and allowing it to be installed on obsolete hardware. My personal favorite was W2K. It was the last Windows install I had that was my default before screwing up the courage to commit fully to Linux, with Mepis 6.5.