Comment by userbinator
16 hours ago
I wonder how long it'll be before they release the source for the earliest Windows versions. The fact that they still have the source for this very old DOS at least gives hope that they also do for old Windows.
16 hours ago
I wonder how long it'll be before they release the source for the earliest Windows versions. The fact that they still have the source for this very old DOS at least gives hope that they also do for old Windows.
The day they would make Windows 2000 codebase open source (or source available) would be the day I could die happy (although I'd probably be long dead anyways by the time there's a glimmerof chance of it happening). What a beautiful, smooth-running operating system it was.
They will never release the code for anything that new because at that point, there's tons of licensed third-party code and the codebase is so large that going through everything to verify ownership would not be feasible. The code to NT 4 and XP have been leaked though.
Agreed. It's still my favorite Windows version.
Except for "the hive". Remember the hive? Sort of an alternate registry, in addition to the actual registry. Granted, it was pretty invisible, until it got corrupted.
I had a win2k machine that was my daily (at home) that was fine until idk about 2006, at which point something happened (muons?) and it would go into some kind of panic state just after bringing up the desktop. Hive corruption. I tried on and off for a couple of years to repair it, no luck. It wasn't just about the files on the HD, it was easy enough to transplant the drive and read/write anything, it was that I really liked the way I had the environment configured. Sure, it was all kind of moot, but it became a kind of personal windmill to resurrect this old thing. In the end, I booted an XP CD in it, and selected 'upgrade', and voila, it was Duncan Idaho, back from the dead.
Anyway.. loved win2k, but not a fan of the hive.
The registry is a collection of individual database files known as hives.
I think you are mistaking the registry for the registry.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030808-00/?p=42...
Wasn't there a 2000 source leak a while ago? I remember some exploits coming out after the leak.
Yes but it could not be legally used by anything.
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There is a mostly complete leak of it...
It shouldn't be hard to disassemble it.
I imagine its not far off. I get the impression they are almost done with windows as a platform.
I am sure that there is a lot good material to take inspiration and learning even from the early Windows 3.11.
Do a deep dive into how OS/360 formalized to having DOS.
/s ?
Pretty sure it's a bot or simple karma farming operation.
They waited a couple decades too long for this to be of interest.