holy bananas! MS = Open Source??? kinda?
 

the key there is government and government agencies. No public code. That would be disasterous. All windows sysems would get hacked to death. Cept me, I'm running windows98 :P

i still have windows 1.0 here on a floppy disk

downloaded it off IRC

antique!
and unhackable!
lol

yeah i know thats why i added the "kinda?" thing in there :P 8)

eviltechie, how can you hack a computer which probably can't use the internet? or networking in general? (i'm presuming that windows 1.0 wouldn'y have these features)

i know i'm probably being to literal by saying this.. but nothing is unhackable.. and to hack, it doesn't have to be on a network either.

truen to hack is to problem solve, to tink, to code

however to crack is malacious entry of a computer/a program.. if we're being pedants here :)

in real life, windows 1 iirc only runs on 386s, probably are no security features at all, as at the time problem wasn't a big priority for microsoft (unlike now :rofl: )

i remember needing security writing useless things and printing them on win 1.0 ( everyone was hacking me!!! ) lol. 8)

I still think that the code would be likely to get out by releasing it to that many governments. Also, I don't think Microsoft would release the entire code, but exceprts from it, that it deems applicable. I don't think it would, by any means, be in a state where it could be modified, and recompiled into a custom operating system.