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Didn't know that NT5 source is available for the public. Why Microsoft does not ban/delete it on GitHub?

by ycuser2 24d ago

lr0 24d ago
They are usually deleted, maybe this one hasn't got popular enough yet.
- Philpax 24d ago
  It's been around for six years; at this point, I imagine any damage it could have done has been done already.
sph 24d ago
It'll pop up elsewhere so might as well keep it online on their servers. And it's an old version of the OS anyway. If it were the Windows 11 source, it'd get nuked immediately
- VCFundedGenYer 23d ago
  > And it's an old version of the OS anyway. Most modern Windows code was written in 1995. Don't assume for one moment that it isn't in production Win11 today.
  - kevin_thibedeau 23d ago
    You can still get windows 3 directory picker dialogs in obscure places like the ODBC data source utility.
    - Sophira 23d ago
      You can even still get error messages referencing the CONFIG.SYS file, which hasn't been relevant for well over two decades at this point: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1wctbf3/throwback_to_the_90s/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1wctbf3/throwback...
      - downrightmike 23d ago
        Why remove things, storage is only getting cheaper /s