Windows Source Code Opened to More

Microsoft has expanded its Shared Source Initiative to seven additional European Union Countries, opening up the Windows source code to more businesses, OEMs, MVPs and academic institutions. Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia have joined the program, which shares Windows 2000, XP, CE and Windows Server 2003 code.

"Transparency leads to greater trust and opportunity," said Jason Matusow, director of the Shared Source Initiative at Microsoft. "Over the past four years we have constantly looked for ways to expand the Shared Source Initiative - across technologies, licence types and geographies to better listen to what our customers and partners are asking of us."