The Windows XP source code was allegedly leaked online

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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.