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Didn't know that NT5 source is available for the public. Why Microsoft does not ban/delete it on GitHub?

They are usually deleted, maybe this one hasn't got popular enough yet.

It's been around for six years; at this point, I imagine any damage it could have done has been done already.

It'll pop up elsewhere so might as well keep it online on their servers. And it's an old version of the OS anyway.

If it were the Windows 11 source, it'd get nuked immediately

> And it's an old version of the OS anyway.

Most modern Windows code was written in 1995. Don't assume for one moment that it isn't in production Win11 today.

You can still get windows 3 directory picker dialogs in obscure places like the ODBC data source utility.

You can even still get error messages referencing the CONFIG.SYS file, which hasn't been relevant for well over two decades at this point: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1wctbf3/throwback...

Why remove things, storage is only getting cheaper /s