Microsoft Opens Up Shared Source Program

WinInfo | News Source
2003-04-10

For the first time, Microsoft will let its hardware partners modify virtually all the source code for one of its Windows versions and ship the resulting specialized products to customers.

However, the Windows version in question is Windows CE .NET (formerly code-named Talisker), which is aimed at embedded and portable markets, not Windows Server or Windows XP, which target the desktop, notebook, and server computing markets. The changes to CE .NET licensing follow a successful 2 years of the Shared Source program, which lets academic researchers, partners, and governments view and occasionally modify the product's source code.

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