Vista source code!

[Magnets]

(saw it on digg )

[Gerrard]

Saw this in an advert in a PC magazine somewhere I think for something. I'm pretty sure it's the same one that went round when WinXP came out, slightly modified of course.

[Funkstar]

/me strugling not to rant about how blatently wrong that whole thing is

[Fraz]

blah

[explicitlyrics]

I dont like the fact that it is returning something that cannot be void from a void function! Other than that its quite amusing

[matty-hodgson]

haha! that's very funny.. but the worst thing is, most of it is kinda true!

nice find

[-iceblade^]

i knew it was going to be a spoof from the moment i read the title... M$ would never release their source code...

pretty funny though

[matty-hodgson]

i knew it was going to be a spoof from the moment i read the title... M$ would never release their source code...

pretty funny though

wouldn't their source code be thousands and thousands and thousands of lines long?

and wouldn't it be possible to get their source code from a Vista Install?

[Agent]

wouldn't their source code be thousands and thousands and thousands of lines long?

and wouldn't it be possible to get their source code from a Vista Install?

Try millions, and I mean millions (probably 40+ million at an underestimate).

And no. Several parts of Windows are not only heavily encrypted, working back from compiled code to source is not easy.

[staffsMike]

wouldn't their source code be thousands and thousands and thousands of lines long?

and wouldn't it be possible to get their source code from a Vista Install?

miliions more than they actually need probably..

No it's all encypted so you can't steal all their amazing ideas.

EDIT: DAMN YOU AGENT... DAMN YOU!!!

[SiM]

Is it true that vista was written entirely by programming 1s and 0s into a Mac?

[JK Ferret]

Amazing... this came up on IRC chat just a few hours ago (shortly before the actual posting, in fact)...

<+Exopaladin> http :// i29. tinypic. com/ 10gidzr.jpg
<sammyc> which is..?
<[187]> lol
<[187]> takes a true geek to understand that
<sammyc> not me then :)
<+Exopaladin> I found it amusing anyway
<Tigerboyce> lol nice
<[187]> i like the SearchAndDestroy function
<Tigerboyce> dont have to be that geeky to understand it
<Hunain> lol
<Hunain> good one Exopaladin

Twice in one period of darkness! (well, it's not one day, nor one night if i'm going by technical terms)

[SiM]

the OP probably read it from IRC and posted it here... no big conspiracy JK...

[JK Ferret]

Chance is that the OP read it from IRC and posted it here... no big conspiracy JK...

Yes I thought so too... don't worry, I'm not getting all 'wow, COINCIDENCE' or anything.

It's been a long day (day in this case being until i go to sleep. I happens to undo my own words a lot)

[Hunain]

So this the means the OP was on IRC when we were discussing it? He was amongst us, yet i cant recall him...

[Efaill]

So this the means the OP was on IRC when we were discussing it? He was amongst us, yet i cant recall him...

Maybe it's a case of "these are not the droids you are looking for"