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Windows Leak Site BuildFeed Closes Down (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the end-of-road dept.

Mark Wilson writes: After five years of leaking information about unreleased builds of Windows, BuildFeed has shut its shop. Over the weekend, the site posted a slew of build numbers including references to onecore and shell_devices_foldable. But there will be no more leaks coming from the BuildFeed. Citing 'extensive internal pressures and external pressures', site founder Thomas Hounsell says that he has terminated his project with immediate effect.

15 comments

  1. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is a huge loss to the entire world.

    1. Re:Wow by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 2

      Really? A Windows leak site closing down is a loss?

      Even if Microsoft themselves closed shop tomorrow I wouldn't see it as a loss.

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      #DeleteFacebook
    2. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't be a moran.

  2. Pressures by Krakadoom · · Score: 1

    So basically likely a cease and desist?

    1. Re:Pressures by Krakadoom · · Score: 1

      (without being actually labeled as such - pressed post too fast) ;)

    2. Re:Pressures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      More like nobody really gave a shit anymore and hosting got too expensive.

  3. Good ridance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I always hated BuzzFeed

    1. Re:Good ridance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      this was buildfeed not buzzfeed but i agree with your sentiment, friend

  4. Turn off the lights by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    (Sign on Redmond campus doors)
    Last one to leave, please turn off the lights...

  5. "It wasnt microsoft, it wasn't microsoft" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There's rather a lot of "It wasn't microsoft" in that announcement.

    I'll guess that it was Microsoft or their lawyers.

  6. Maybe they ran out of leaks? by jfdavis668 · · Score: 1

    Microsoft finally caught up on the backlog.

    1. Re:Maybe they ran out of leaks? by Syncerus · · Score: 2

      You, my friend, are an optimist!

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      "Man is nothing without the works of man" -- Helvetius
    2. Re:Maybe they ran out of leaks? by ArchieBunker · · Score: 1

      I was thinking more like lack of demand. Every update they release is worse than the previous one. Nobody wants to see the garbage being churned out.

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      Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
    3. Re:Maybe they ran out of leaks? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Good self knowledge Trumptard.

    4. Re:Maybe they ran out of leaks? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Repeat after me: "It was her time, I'm not a sore loser."

      haha.