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    Microsoft’s original source code

    (www.gatesnotes.com)
    617 points EvgeniyZh | 12 comments | 03 Apr 25 21:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.379s | source | bottom
    1. davidblue ◴[03 Apr 25 23:54 UTC] No.43576866[source]▶
    Love how absolutely engorged and broken this web page is to dramatically depict a style that - were the article actually just published in plain text - would be what... a millionth the size? Should have known better than to be surprised that the "source code" one can "download" and "look through" is in a goddamned PDF.

    I do truly wonder if the fact that he was publishing a PDF as downloadable "code" even caused him any pause lol.

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    2. whydoyoucare ◴[04 Apr 25 00:02 UTC] No.43576918[source]▶
    The article rendering hurt my eyes, and then it was a pdf of the source code! :-(
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    3. nailer ◴[04 Apr 25 00:13 UTC] No.43576973[source]▶
    You can’t even use reader mode on the site because of the text effect. It will cut off after the first few paragraphs since the others have the effect applied.
    4. ks2048 ◴[04 Apr 25 00:17 UTC] No.43577000[source]▶
    If only Microsoft owned a place to post source code...
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    5. timClicks ◴[04 Apr 25 00:40 UTC] No.43577166[source]▶
    Shipping highly optimized assembler for a program made to work on computers with 4KB RAM as a ~100 MB PDF is quite the flex.

    I must admit that while it's computationally quite wasteful, the web page does look quite neat.

    6. gerdesj ◴[04 Apr 25 00:49 UTC] No.43577205{3}[source]▶
    That would be either OneDrive or for the real l337 adminz: B:\

    Git is for Linux and other cancers.

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    7. joezydeco ◴[04 Apr 25 00:53 UTC] No.43577230{4}[source]▶
    OneDrive? Look at mister corporate moneybags here. Sharepoint!
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    8. ◴[04 Apr 25 01:14 UTC] No.43577348[source]▶
    9. filoleg ◴[04 Apr 25 01:40 UTC] No.43577484{5}[source]▶
    SharePoint is where the real money and fun stuff is at.

    How do you think the likes of Delta and McDonalds manage their intranet and document storage? OneDrive is just a glorified SharePoint feature.

    P.S. Joking only partially, and not much at all.

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    11. thesuitonym ◴[04 Apr 25 13:59 UTC] No.43582491[source]▶
    Regardless of what anyone thinks of the website, it's likely that the only way the code exists is that ream of paper. While Bill Gates could easily have bought an OCR reader to make a text file of it with the loose change in his couch, I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to just scan it in and provide that scan.
    12. joezydeco ◴[04 Apr 25 14:58 UTC] No.43583406{6}[source]▶
    Yeah, it's pretty awesome, right?

    REAL windows enterprise companies worth their salt use a shared drive on \\global.