Microsoft reveals secret code to Russia
Posted by Michael Stanclift on 24 January 2003 - 18:41 · 11 comments & 1218 views
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#1 Posted by denisvs on 24 Jan 2003 - 18:51
- kewl
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#2 Posted by
Dazzla on 24 Jan 2003 - 18:53
- Deja vu
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#2.1 Posted by Marshalus on 24 Jan 2003 - 19:10
- The other post was about India. If I remember correctly.
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#2.2 Posted by tmaxxtigger on 24 Jan 2003 - 19:11
- Yeah, me too!
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#3 Posted by tmeg on 24 Jan 2003 - 22:58
- Hehe, perhaps there will be soon a russian windows clone
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#4 Posted by Apollo on 25 Jan 2003 - 01:55
- hmm wasn't this already posted ? cus this news has some days now
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#5 Posted by macster on 26 Jan 2003 - 09:35
- Maybe the russian warez guys will post the code soon
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#6 Posted by Osiris on 26 Jan 2003 - 12:54
- hehe you cant help but laugh can you. They release their code to the country with one of the highest and most untouched warez scenes in the world. Lets just hope none of those warez kiddies, actually work for the russian government.
The U.S. software giant announced last week it would unveil its source code to governments to help them protect state software used for tracking personal data, taxes and ensuring national security.
"Russia is the first country to sign such an agreement with us, but it will not be the only one," said Olga Dergunova, managing director of Microsoft's Moscow office.
Signing on to Microsoft's Government Security Program will allow Russia, and any other signatory, to weave its own technology into Microsoft's Windows platform and adapt Windows to its needs and test its ability to fend off hackers.
With this move, Microsoft aims to strengthen its position in government markets, where it faces growing competitive pressure from free open-source software. Russia, long considered one of the world's most secretive countries itself, in February will receive the first portions of the code -- a sequence of letters and numbers roughly 30 million lines long.
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