{"id":30383,"date":"2020-10-08T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30383"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:15:51","slug":"windows-xp-source-code-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/08\/windows-xp-source-code-leaked\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP Source Code Leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/alleged-windows-xp-source-code-leaked-spread-4chan\">Dan Thorp-Lancaster<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/alleged-windows-xp-source-code-leaked-spread-4chan\"><p>Alleged source code for Windows XP leaked online this week. The leak was spread in a thread on the anonymous forum 4chan, which linked to archives of both the alleged Windows XP source code along with source code for other Microsoft products. Notably, the archive includes the Windows NT 3.5 and original Xbox source code dumps that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/original-xbox-source-code-reportedly-leaked\">appeared online in May<\/a>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>If the leak is legitimate, it could expose any remaining Windows XP-based systems to new attacks. However, Microsoft hasn&rsquo;t supported Windows XP in any meaningful way since it reached its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/windows\/end-of-windows-xp-support\">end-of-support date in 2014<\/a>, which marked the end of security updates for the aging operating system.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, while this would be the first time Windows XP source code has gone public, Microsoft already shares its code with governments and university researchers around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/9\/25\/21456525\/microsoft-windows-xp-theme-mac-aqua\">Tom Warren<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=24595868\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/09\/26\/microsoft-macos-aqua-windows-xp\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/9\/25\/21456525\/microsoft-windows-xp-theme-mac-aqua\"><p>Microsoft created a secret Windows XP theme that made the operating system look more like a Mac. A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/9\/25\/21455655\/microsoft-windows-xp-source-code-leak\">Windows XP source code leak<\/a> has revealed Microsoft&rsquo;s early work on the operating system and some unreleased themes the company created during its early XP development back in 2000. <\/p><p>One is labeled &ldquo;Candy&rdquo; and includes a design that closely resembles Apple&rsquo;s Aqua interface that was first introduced at the Macworld Conference &amp; Expo in 2000. Although the theme is incomplete, the Windows XP Start button and various buttons and UI elements are clearly themed to match Apple&rsquo;s Aqua.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Thorp-Lancaster: Alleged source code for Windows XP leaked online this week. The leak was spread in a thread on the anonymous forum 4chan, which linked to archives of both the alleged Windows XP source code along with source code for other Microsoft products. Notably, the archive includes the Windows NT 3.5 and original Xbox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-10-08T20:15:55Z","apple_news_api_id":"830f94dd-f5b9-4ac0-a88c-3520e78ffc8e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-10-08T20:15:55Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Agw-U3fW5SsCojDUg54_8jg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,48,219],"class_list":["post-30383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-security","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30384,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30383\/revisions\/30384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}