Windows Vista source code leaked!

[Kaabi]

I'm not much of a programmer but I can still understand that joke pretty well ha ha.

[bsha100]

HA! I was actually hoping that the code was leaked. I hate Microsoft. I've never had a Windows OS that was worthwhile. Xp was alright, but sp2 didn't solve many of the network issues it had. And when it did it caused many more ( i.e. automatically enabling Windows Firwall on like evey program that tries to access the internet. ) It still was a step up from ME, which was a disaster as far as networking was concerned. I'm glad Bill Gates has so much money, he's obviously earned it................

[Kaabi]

If the source code was really leaked, what exactly could people do with it?

[TotalPenguin]

Well... you know. It can end up like Linux, having a tons of distros and improvements... and removing some annoyances, maybe hacking the genuine check etc.. IMO It would be a better OS.

[Tor]

There could be a lot done with it. Custom versions would come out, easily modified graphics, menus, etc. Bugs could be fixed and I think the big issue here is code could be stolen for other projects.

[Ricardo]

Originally Posted by Jordan

It was meant to be a joke but he posted a thumbnail. Here is the full image: http://i29.tinypic.com/10gidzr.jpg

Do you mean Vista was meant to be a joke?

What could we expect to happen if the source was really leaked?

I guess there'd be a huge number of viruses targeting Vista?

[TotalPenguin]

Nope. I think there will be many flavors of Vista like Linux... maybe even more stables OSes.

[Tor]

That would be nice

Windows Vista "Really Good Edition"

[envoy14]

lol ...

[dheeruyadav]

is this really going to harm Microsoft?