lekkeri

Is there any chance that older versions of Windows will have their source code officially released?

They're already out there as source code leaks, but it would be nice to be able to view it legally and perhaps more completely, in a similar way to how we can view the .NET reference source.

I really enjoyed browsing the NT4 and 2000 leaks, it was fascinating to see how Windows works under the hood, and I was interested to see how well (or not) my understanding of the disassembly matched up with where it came from. It also helped massively with troubleshooting and understanding API surfaces, particularly the kernel side.

Could this ever happen, is there the political will internally to be even more open on the OS side?