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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by toyg on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @07:21PM (#24645265)
Bold of you to assume all XP code present in Win10 (which almost certainly exists) is bugfree...
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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by whoisthemachine on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:19PM (#24645768)
Agreed, if people start actively contributing to this codebase, it may fix defects in Windows 10.
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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by SteveNuts on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @10:04PM (#24646488)
Conspiracy theory time: Microsoft intentionally leaked this code so they can gear up to fully open sourcing all of Windows and crowd sourcing its development and bug fixing.

It makes sense, I don't think MS cares about Windows anymore in the azure/O365 era.

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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by teruakohatu on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @10:28PM (#24646642)
It makes sense, they have very little to lose other than the glarimg issue that even with a non-free license it would inevitably end up being used to run Office on Linux via syscall or full emulation.
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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by jmnicolas on Thursday October 01, 2020 @02:22AM (#24647925)
Your theory would hold more water if they had released Windows 10 code.
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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by quintushoratius on Thursday October 01, 2020 @07:00AM (#24649521)
Maybe they're testing the waters? Perhaps there's a political problem with open-sourcing a current product that nearly every company has sunk a sizeable amount of revenue into?

OPs hypothesis isn't totally outlandish.

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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by VibrantClarity on Thursday October 01, 2020 @01:21PM (#24653628)
Yes it is totally outlandish. This was leaked, not open sourced. No one is going to seriously contribute to a project that can't be legally distributed.
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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by jmnicolas on Thursday October 01, 2020 @03:49PM (#24655443)
It's not even SP 3!
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