Microsoft Pressures Testers After Software Leak

narramissic writes "ITworld reports that Microsoft is 'taking tough measures to find out who leaked a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Home Server to The Hotfix.net blog.' The software preview was posted on the site by a user named 'Richard' soon after it was released to a small group of testers. In an e-mail to MVPs whose names contain 'Richard,' Kevin Beares, the Windows Home Server community lead at Microsoft, wrote: 'For right now, you have no access to the beta until I can find the Richard who posted the WHS (Windows Home Server) CTP on this site.... I will work with the Connect Admin team to determine which one of you is the real culprit of this leak.'"

Comments

WHS

[DaMattster]

Want a Windows Home Server? Load a copy of Linux/*BSD and Samba on to a spare PC. There you go, all the power of a basic domain without all the costs associated with an M$ product.

Re:WHS

[inode_buddha]

Good points actually, IMHO. I think what you are really complaining about is the "MS Mind-set". It's the sort of thing where thy simply *cannot* accommodate any ideas other than their own. Much like having elderly (senile?) parents, they have fossilized themselves and the told the *rest* of the world to adapt to them.

Mod Parent Up Please

[rueger]

He's right.....

Re:Dear Slashdot - Thankyou!

[HomelessInLaJolla]

Also, thanks for your good work...Bill Gates This e-mail seems to indicate that some Slashdot maintainers originate from within MS.

Re:Have you read Slashdot before?

[HomelessInLaJolla]

Some of them may even be working inside of Microsoft.

Re:It just occurred to me

[HomelessInLaJolla]

Slashdot is being run by Microsoft.

Re:Have you read Slashdot before?

[networkBoy]

mod parent troll
I've seen far too many of these links on this thread. It now qualifies as spam IMHO...
-nB