how to open the source of windows?

Question

someone told me that he has read the source of windows, how can i open the source like him?

Answer 1

This is accomplished by reverse engineering the compiled program code using a debugger such as SoftICE, OllyDbg, GDB, or MacsBug .It is possible to decompile a program in order to get access to the original source code or code on a level higher than machine code. This is often possible with scripting languages. An example is cracking (or debugging) on the .NET platform where one might consider manipulating CIL to achieve one's needs.

Answer 2

a million. Make a certificates mandatory besides the stupid OS. sort of like a PIN. 2. do away with that f^cking Library function. 3. Make folders shareable with different OS And, you snicker, however the transport of utility would be precisely what I even have defined. each and every person watched Apple's iStore thought. Intel, google, and Amazon are a sprint earlier than the curve in this one than Microsoft. google does it terrific, with the help of a great way. This 'walled-backyard' thought would be shaped with the help of lobbying and political contributions. i do no longer visualize Microsoft's patent-infringement claims against Linux as effectual. I do see Oracle gutting google's utility contributions. Microsoft ought to on no account be open source. They have been given to the place they're utilising an Economist and a lawyer. Microsoft does not innovate.

Answer 3

*** Microsoft probes Windows code leak

Microsoft is investigating how a file containing some protected source code to Windows 2000 was posted to several underground sites and chat rooms.



A spokesman said late Thursday that incomplete portions of Windows 2000 and Windows NT were illegally posted to the Internet.



"It's illegal for third parties to post Microsoft source code," spokesman Tom Pilla said. "We obviously take that very seriously."



Microsoft said it is investigating how the code got on the Internet and is working with law enforcement. "We will take all appropriate legal actions as we move forward with the investigation," Pilla said .The 203MB file contains code from Microsoft's enterprise operating system, but the code was clearly incomplete, said Dragos Ruiu, a security consultant and the organizer of the CanSecWest security conference, who has examined the file listing.



"It was on the peer-to-peer networks and IRC (Internet relay chat) today," Ruiu said. "Everybody has got it--it's widespread now."

The 203MB file expands to just under 660MB, he said, noting that the final code size almost perfectly matches the capacity of a typical CD-ROM. The entire source code, he said, is believed to be about 40GB, meaning that the file circulating Thursday is only a fraction of the full code base."It looks real," he said. "You can't build Windows, however. It's just a bunch of chunks of the operating system."



Microsoft said it is looking into claims that file traders were swapping its proprietary source code.



Earlier Thursday, a source located a file purporting to be the code on a Web site, but the file was removed from the Internet before it could be completely downloaded.



*NOTE: after 3+ decades in this business, I can assure you that only a highly skilled senior programmer with outstanding reverse enginnering skills could even understand more less open and or read? the Ms O/s source codes... To a superior skilled reverse engineer? all source code is open.... your " friend " I believe is being dishonest in his braggardly claim(s)

Answer 4

I highly doubt that...the source code is a highly protected item. Although a while back the Windows 2000 source got leaked out. You would need the software capable of viewing the source code format anyways.

Answer 5

As already mentioned, Microsoft doesn't freely distribute their Windows source code.

He probably meant that he can read the disassembled code. If you know Assembly language, then you can use a program called a 'disassembler' to view the program code.

The program's code bytes are converted to Assembly mnemonics and it certainly isn't as easy to read as viewing source code from a high level language.

Learning Assembly language isn't too difficult; The main problem is a lack of good books & tutorials.

Answer 6

You can't , its proprietary (closed source) while Microsoft has some high-level vendor agreements to show them parts of the operating system source code , but even this is a closely guarded secret.



If you want to see how a an operating system similar to Windows NT is built conider ReactOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS

Answer 7

Well the guy who told you that he read the source code of windows was bluffing...The source code of windows is locked for security reasons and MS dosn't jst give away its source codes to anyone....

Answer 8

Windows is closed source, i.e. there is IP copyright on it. Microsoft doesn't want anyone stealing their "innovations" (cough, cough).



There was a rumour that some Longhorn (the development name for Vista) code was circulating on the internet, but not all of it.

Answer 9

You can't read the source from the distribution cd, it is not supplied.