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News Roundup: Microsoft source code stolen
News Microsoft has admitted that its security defences have been breached and exploited for a month by hackers who could even have captured its precious source code. Hackers burgle Microsoft source code Fri, 27 Oct Company reveals hackers have stolen...
[October 27, 2000, 15:56]
Microsoft shares source code with AIDS researchers
News Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has released to the AIDS research community the source code for four analytical software tools, a move intended to aid the development of a vaccine for the disease.
[June 14, 2007, 9:08]
Microsoft shares source code with students
News Spooked by the growing popularity of Linux and Java software, Microsoft is opening up its source code to up-and-coming programmers on college campuses. Microsoft said on Wednesday that it will share with students more than a million lines of source...
[March 27, 2002, 16:10]
Microsoft makes source code plea to EC
News Microsoft has offered to make its Windows server source code available to people licensing its server interoperability protocols, in its latest attempt to achieve compliance with 2004's European antitrust ruling.
[January 25, 2006, 13:25]
US Report: Microsoft wants source-code protection
News District Court for the District of Columbia, Microsoft said its source code is "the software equivalent to the formula for Coca-Cola," and may provide clues to the company's plans for future operating systems.
[August 5, 1998, 8:17]
Microsoft files lawsuit over source code theft
News Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against an alleged hacker who broke through its copy-protection technology, charging that the mystery developer somehow gained access to its copyrighted source code.
[September 27, 2006, 8:40]
Hackers burgle Microsoft source code
News Software giant Microsoft said hackers had broken into the company's computers, in what a spokesman called "a deplorable act of industrial espionage", and were believed to have gained access to the source code of such software as Windows operating...
[October 27, 2000, 9:35]
US Report: Caldera furious as Microsoft loses its source code
News Claiming that Microsoft failed to provide all of the DOS and Windows source code required by the judge overseeing its private antitrust suit against the company, Caldera is poised to ask the judge to compel the software giant to turn over the...
[August 27, 1998, 9:27]
States to Microsoft: open your source code
News Nine states and the District of Columbia want Microsoft to open its software source code should the company fail to comply with proposed restrictions on its business practices. In addition, only the source code for software found in violation of...
[December 10, 2001, 11:07]
Microsoft sends threatening letters to source-code posters
Talkback They cannot even secure their OS source code ! This is just another unbelievable embarrassment for Microsoft. Why not trust Microsoft to secure our environments. I agree with Marc from Eeye. Especially at such a critical time with all of the...
[February 23, 2004, 15:20]
Microsoft makes source code plea to EC
Talkback As we are dependent (through econmic and market engineering) on Microsoft Software it should be put by force into the public domain where it can be properly accessed and assesed and where required improved.
[January 26, 2006, 2:14]
Microsoft makes source code plea to EC
Talkback Don't hold your breath waiting for compliance from M$. They will drag it out and delay as long as possible to keep competition away. All they want is for the world to use their product alone, regardless of its crappiness.
[January 26, 2006, 13:03]
Microsoft makes source code plea to EC
Talkback Well Microsoft is not used to compete. Thats why the share stock have fallen like a rock during the years. So sell all your stocks if you have any. If the monopol situation in the desktop area and so becomes solved for once.
[January 25, 2006, 20:21]
Microsoft files lawsuit over source code theft
Talkback In the words of BBs Pete "W@.s" Microsoft should have learnt by now that just because you believe you are clever and say you are clever does NOT mean that you are clever. Most of this IT is Obvious and Patenting it doesn't make it any less so.
[September 28, 2006, 13:08]
Microsoft's open source side-step
Blog Comment I suspect that those who would write code using an Eclipse IDE would more likely write for Linux and Moonlight instead if they have any interest at all in supporting Microsoft's web media standards. They obviously have been keeping their legal...
[March 16, 2009, 8:35]
Why Microsoft code leak worries me
Talkback The very fact that the code protecting data as sensitive as you make it out to be will not stand public scrutiny should worry you. So why are we so worried about MS Windows code being out there? No one worries that all the source for apache and...
[February 17, 2004, 12:43]
Why Microsoft code leak worries me
Talkback If MicroShaft didn't charge so much for their Operating systems in the 1st place, nobody would care to push the source out or pirate their software. Do we see the start of a MicroShaft rebellion? Lets hope so!
[February 19, 2004, 8:50]
Why Microsoft code leak worries me
Talkback I don't believe any OS can be made absolutly bullet-proof and that dedicated hackers will be able to break down code either by reverse engineering or by access to the source and find a vunerability. The dfference here is two fold, first the target...
[February 18, 2004, 12:05]
Microsoft opens up more code
Talkback In the light of Micro$oft's recent (un)caring, (un)sharing behaviour with a cure for Spam that won't be used globally because they won't allow it to be released under an open source licence, and can't bare to make the world a better place for free.
[September 28, 2004, 11:15]
Microsoft, Red Hat argue open source
Talkback If SCO knows for a fact that code has been copied, why don't they show it to everyone and then the open source people could remove the offending code. This would alllow companies and individuals to use the linux kernal which would not be in...
[August 19, 2003, 9:41]
