First consequences of the Windows source code leak
25/12/2004 20:29 | Categories: Geeky | 0 Comments
The first one, is that there has already been found a security bug in IE 5. It didn't take long to find anything!
The second one is that people have had a look at the code and while that would make you unable to work in certain open-source projects, we can still have some fun and have a look at the sometimes funny and sometimes bad-mouthed comments that Microsft developers wrote
Other interesting things to look at is that the code has a few hacks, and that inside the very same kernel-level code there are plenty of work-arounds for buggy applications (Microsoft and non-Microsoft apps alike) I don't agree with that because it's not a task for the kernel to make buggy applications work well, but I think that this guy may have a point. This other link is also a very nice example of a hack upon a hack upon a hack. And then we wonder why it took MS so long to release anything barely stable...