http://clipmarks.com/clipper/hotdoge3/collection/Vista/sort/latest-comments/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/hotdoge3/collection/Vista/sort/latest-comments/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/56B76857-4887-48B7-8CAE-C13AD785E2A1/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/hotdoge3/">hotdoge3</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> WGA <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:#99ff33"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2008/04/hackers_open_source_vista.html" title="http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2008/04/hackers_open_source_vista.html">blogs.pcworld.co.nz</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV id="blog-header"> <H1 id="banner-header"><A accesskey="1" href="http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/">Tux Love</A></H1> <H2 id="banner-description"></H2> </DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H3 class="entry-header"><A href="http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2008/04/hackers_open_source_vista.html" class="permalink">Hackers "open source" Vista</A></H3></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV> <SPAN> <DIV id="adSpace2"></DIV> <DIV class="sponsor_div"> <DIV class="sponsor_div_title"><IMG alt="Sponsored Links" src="http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/img/head_sponsored.gif" /></DIV> <DIV id="adSpace4"></DIV> <DIV id="adSpace5"></DIV> <DIV id="adSpace6"></DIV> </DIV> </SPAN> <IMG vspace="5" hspace="10" alt="" src="http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/spy.gif" />Microsoft reacted swiftly this morning to close down a site distributing the complete source code of its flagship Vista operating system -- but not before dozens of other sites had mirrored the code.</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV> The compressed 4.2GB file called Ballmers_Balls.zip -- apparently in reference to Microsoft CEO <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc">Steve Ballmer</A> -- is, according to one source, "all over the net like a rash."</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/hotdoge3/512/75F0315D-4AA7-418B-B9D4-4926EA2E51BD.gif" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV> Analysts familiar with the operating system have declared it to be "obviously genuine."</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV> Here, exclusive to PC World, is a snippet of that code...</DIV></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2008/04/hackers_open_source_vista.htmlTue, 01 Apr 2008 02:45:17 GMT