In an effort to keep its customers secure following the recent Windows source code leaks, Microsoft has turned to the lessons it learned while taking a two month hiatus in early 2002 to clean house and eliminate insecure code from Windows. Also, Microsoft sent letters to several Internet service providers this week telling them that they have customers suspected of trading the stolen Windows 2000 and Windows NT code on peer-to-peer networks like Morpheus and Kazaa.
Microsoft to Review Old Windows Code After Source Leak
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i thought they were supposed to be already doing this with their “trusted computing” initiative. i thought this was a continuous effort by microsoft. so what the heck have they been doing? reviewing only new code?
From the article:
“This code did go through the quality control process of its day before its release, which was a number of years ago. Since then, there have been numerous improvements in the security process, and code has continually been reviewed and updated for security,” a Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews. “In this case, in order to help ensure our customers are not impacted by the release of this source code, we are reviewing it again.”
was a truly awful day, indeed. It took 3 service packs before NT could be considered usable, or even possessing a semblance of stability.
Win2K was a much better effort. In fact, except for the lack of ClearType, I’ve always preferred it to XP.
I hope this means a new service pack+fixes for Win2k. It’s MS’s best OS so far IMHO, and it’s a shame that updates have been slowing down.
“even possessing a semblance of stability. ”
NT 4.0, 5.0 and 5.1 have all been more stable than redhat or darwin for me…
Maybe I just use good hardware
Long live Netware
NT 4.0, 5.0 and 5.1 have all been more stable than redhat or darwin for me…
Maybe I just use good hardware
Long live Netware
We all have different experiences I guess. 2000 and XP have given me all kinds of problems on the same hardware (good hardware included!) compared to Linux.
NT 4.0, 5.0 and 5.1 have all been more stable than redhat or darwin for me…
Maybe I just use good hardware
Long live Netware
I said that it took until Service Pack 3 before NT became usable and stable. Try this as an experiment with unpatched NT: Change video and then try to install the manufacturer-supplied or Microsoft approved driver. If the driver wasn’t included with the OS, it won’t install or you won’t be able to use it. Once you install Service Pack 3 or later, it should autodetect or you’ll be able to change from the Standard VGA driver to it.
If you as me this is a way of making the old versions of windows utter crap to run on, because of all the possible new virus that will be created thanks to the source.
This is the ultimate in cynicism, giving the ‘enemy’ the code to your system so older versions become so open to attack that the only want to continue working with Windows is to upgrade to a newer version!!!
Good work Microsoft!
ugh… you _DO_ have to do this sort of thing to protect your trade secrets, but a trademark has nothing to do with source code availablity… For instance Linux is still trademarked by Linus even though everyone can download the source…