It will be interesting to see what happens with this. Maybe this will open the doors down the road to do something like this again.


Benefits

Access to Microsoft source code through the ESLP benefits enterprise customers by:

  • Providing insight and a deeper understanding of Windows.
  • Facilitating security and privacy audits and maintenance of customer's computing environment.
  • Enhancing performance tuning, thereby allowing customers to adjust and optimize their own systems and related applications.
  • Enhancing the pre-deployment engineering process for enterprise environments.
  • Improving internal support and troubleshooting capabilities of deployed Windows systems.
  • Improving the feedback mechanisms that ultimately contribute to the development of better Microsoft customer solutions and tools for the future.