While at first glance this may seem like a good thing (at least for MS), i'm left wondering whether it will actually do any good...the MVPs who gain this access seem to be part of a rather closed community, being voted to their status by a bunch of people from other peer microsoft communities/groups.
Although some might say that sharing the code out, even among a closed community, might conceivably lead to improvements, from MS's track record with their multifarious products (some of which had oodles of people involved), there is no palpable confidence (at least in my mind) that it will get any better.
And in any case, even though microsoft shares the code out to the MVPs, there is nothing in the article that states that the MVPs will be allowed to modify the code...rather, the article explicitly states that they will "help" the developers. So even if some sagacious MVP does somehow manage to make a tiny improvement (unlikely, i know, but let's just suppose it for the sake of argument), wanna bet that he'd probably have to move heaven and earth to get someone who counts at MS to recognize this?
Also, as someon posted earlier, there is a good chance of the code getting leaked, even if MS uses the strongarm tactics that it is capable of to get the leaks plugged as fast as possible. What would happen then would be anyone's guess...
Anyway, here a link to the Windows 2000 source code http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/source.php. (if it's been already posted elsewhere on this site, beg pardon, i did indeed search, so my search skills are lacking...)
Wow, just as i hit SUBMIT earlier slashdot went down...is the big M already guuning for/.?
I wonder if this would affect medical sites that have displays of unclothed underage patients...assuming there are any such...which i guess would immediately lead to a public outcry about denial of necessary information yada yada yada
Hmmm...the way nokia seems to be going, pretty soon, you'll have phones that you can put on the ground and play that dance-on-the-lit-squares-to-really-bad-music game.... . . .
oh, wait a minute....people are already doing it without waiting for the game to be programmed into the phone....i think it's called stomp-the-phone...whatever happened to just talking into a phone *sigh*
...does this mean that when Sun actually dies, it will turn into a black hole and suck all the other silicon valley companies down? It sure is massive enough:)
...but IMHO these things are perpetrated by some of the trolls owned by antivirus solutions providers...after all, they gotta eat, too. I mean, where would they be without a new infestation every now and then?
Besides, i dont know about you, but i'm sure suspicious of the speed with which the anti-[worm, virus] solutions are rolled out by these same companies, as also the monotonous regularity with which new plagues descend upon us.
To me, it's far more likely that there's a bunch of worm-creating trolls in some dank dungeon in the rancid underbelly of some nameless anti(haha)virus firm, than to think there are so _many_ different sick-minded individuals who would simply create network havoc as they have no better business.
Granted, some of the worm-virus-cleaner patches are offered at no cost, but i guess that's just the corporate way of first scaring you into utter sh*tless terror and then offering you a comforting hug saying "There there, it's alright, you'll be completely fine when you upgrade to our upgrade costing ${lotsa bucks}...See, we love you, not your money".
So we might as well make a clean sweep of it, while we're contemplating suitably violent ends to perpetrators of such misery. Oh, and did i mention euthanizing microshaft?
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While at first glance this may seem like a good thing (at least for MS), i'm left wondering whether it will actually do any good...the MVPs who gain this access seem to be part of a rather closed community, being voted to their status by a bunch of people from other peer microsoft communities/groups.
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Take a look at the MVP FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?sci
Although some might say that sharing the code out, even among a closed community, might conceivably lead to improvements, from MS's track record with their multifarious products (some of which had oodles of people involved), there is no palpable confidence (at least in my mind) that it will get any better.
And in any case, even though microsoft shares the code out to the MVPs, there is nothing in the article that states that the MVPs will be allowed to modify the code...rather, the article explicitly states that they will "help" the developers. So even if some sagacious MVP does somehow manage to make a tiny improvement (unlikely, i know, but let's just suppose it for the sake of argument), wanna bet that he'd probably have to move heaven and earth to get someone who counts at MS to recognize this?
Also, as someon posted earlier, there is a good chance of the code getting leaked, even if MS uses the strongarm tactics that it is capable of to get the leaks plugged as fast as possible. What would happen then would be anyone's guess...
Anyway, here a link to the Windows 2000 source code http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/source.php. (if it's been already posted elsewhere on this site, beg pardon, i did indeed search, so my search skills are lacking...)
Wow, just as i hit SUBMIT earlier slashdot went down...is the big M already guuning for
You insensitive clod!
I wonder if this would affect medical sites that have displays of unclothed underage patients...assuming there are any such...which i guess would immediately lead to a public outcry about denial of necessary information yada yada yada
Hmmm...the way nokia seems to be going, pretty soon, you'll have phones that you can put on the ground and play that dance-on-the-lit-squares-to-really-bad-music game... .
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oh, wait a minute....people are already doing it without waiting for the game to be programmed into the phone....i think it's called stomp-the-phone...whatever happened to just talking into a phone *sigh*
...does this mean that when Sun actually dies, it will turn into a black hole and suck all the other silicon valley companies down? It sure is massive enough :)
...but IMHO these things are perpetrated by some of the trolls owned by antivirus solutions providers...after all, they gotta eat, too. I mean, where would they be without a new infestation every now and then?
Besides, i dont know about you, but i'm sure suspicious of the speed with which the anti-[worm, virus] solutions are rolled out by these same companies, as also the monotonous regularity with which new plagues descend upon us.
To me, it's far more likely that there's a bunch of worm-creating trolls in some dank dungeon in the rancid underbelly of some nameless anti(haha)virus firm, than to think there are so _many_ different sick-minded individuals who would simply create network havoc as they have no better business.
Granted, some of the worm-virus-cleaner patches are offered at no cost, but i guess that's just the corporate way of first scaring you into utter sh*tless terror and then offering you a comforting hug saying "There there, it's alright, you'll be completely fine when you upgrade to our upgrade costing ${lotsa bucks}...See, we love you, not your money".
So we might as well make a clean sweep of it, while we're contemplating suitably violent ends to perpetrators of such misery. Oh, and did i mention euthanizing microshaft?
>>Once the diagnosis has got this far, ;>
...preferably with a 12-gauge loaded with 00 buckshhot, at close range....
>> trouble-shooting becomes a pleasure