The Windows XP source code was allegedly leaked online

[atom0s]

Not sure why you guys think nothing in XP is still being used in 10. There is no reason for Microsoft to rewrite everything from scratch every edition or even for a major edition such as 10 outside of the main core and specific libraries that directly require it. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a lot of news popping up in the near future regarding various new 0days, patches from Microsoft to fix known problems that are now going to be mainstream that were ignored for the time being, etc. with this being a public thing now.

[nulli]

Originally Posted by atom0s

Not sure why you guys think nothing in XP is still being used in 10. There is no reason for Microsoft to rewrite everything from scratch every edition or even for a major edition such as 10 outside of the main core and specific libraries that directly require it. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a lot of news popping up in the near future regarding various new 0days, patches from Microsoft to fix known problems that are now going to be mainstream that were ignored for the time being, etc. with this being a public thing now.

This will surely help exploit developers (I am not one) but we already have Windows 2000+WRK sources. And the leap from 2000/WRK to XP/2003 is not really that huge. If this was Windows 7 that would be something else entirely.

Legacy code will and always has been part of Windows. You will find NT, 2K, XP code in Windows 10 as well and this will have an impact of things for sure. Its just not that huge in my opinion.

[Rasmus]

Originally Posted by atom0s

I wouldn't be surprised if we see a lot of news popping up in the near future regarding various new 0days, patches from Microsoft to fix known problems that are now going to be mainstream that were ignored for the time being, etc. with this being a public thing now.

Now everything is out in the open. So M$ would have to address it. Else just the blackhats would be the ones silently creating the exploits. Blackhats buy off the code well before any leaks. It is good now that the whitehats can also work on it.

[Max]

Originally Posted by atom0s

Not sure why you guys think nothing in XP is still being used in 10. There is no reason for Microsoft to rewrite everything from scratch every edition or even for a major edition such as 10 outside of the main core and specific libraries that directly require it. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a lot of news popping up in the near future regarding various new 0days, patches from Microsoft to fix known problems that are now going to be mainstream that were ignored for the time being, etc. with this being a public thing now.

It's not obsolete, some machines depend on legacy OS to run, switching to new OS means replacing the entire machinery and the cost runs into 5 to 6 digits or even more.

[Dicypher]

Originally Posted by Max

It's not obsolete, some machines depend on legacy OS to run, switching to new OS means replacing the entire machinery and the cost runs into 5 to 6 digits or even more.

Agreed... some enterprise systems take decades to switch. Never completely obsolete, even if not officially supported.