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Re: [News] Microsoft pressures testers after software leak

__/ [ AB ] on Friday 13 April 2007 17:52 \__

> http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2218/070413msleak/
> 
>    Microsoft Corp. is taking tough measures to find out who leaked a
>    Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Home Server to The
>    Hotfix.net blog after the software preview was posted on the site by
>    a user named "Richard" soon after it was released to a small group
>    of testers.
> 
>    In an e-mail to testers obtained by the IDG News Service, Kevin
>    Beares, the Windows Home Server community lead at Microsoft, wrote
>    to Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) whose name contain "Richard"
>    that they will not have access to the beta until he finds out who
>    leaked the software to The Hotfix.net site. MVP is a title Microsoft
>    gives people who are active and helpful in communities for
>    Microsoft's different product groups, and many MVPs end up being
>    early testers of products.
> 
> First off, how could they know for sure the posters name wasn't Karl,
> or Erik. Second of all, how do they know it was one of their MVps? Are
> those the only guinea pigs for this particular piece of malware?

How /dare/ people try to fix their broken and buggy Vista?

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