MS To Squeeze Testers After Software Leak

Microsoft Corp. is taking tough measures to find out who leaked a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Home Server to The Hotfix.net blog after the software preview was posted on the site by a user named “Richard” soon after it was released to a small group of testers.

In an e-mail to testers obtained by the IDG News Service, Kevin Beares, the Windows Home Server community lead at Microsoft, wrote to Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) whose name contain “Richard” that they will not have access to the beta until he finds out who leaked the software to The Hotfix.net site.

MVP is a title Microsoft gives people who are active and helpful in communities for Microsoft’s different product groups, and many MVPs end up being early testers of products. “For right now, you have no access to the beta until I can find the Richard who posted the WHS (Windows Home Server) CTP on this site,” the e-mail said.

“I will work with the Connect Admin team to determine which one of you is the real culprit of this leak.” Beares apologized for having to punish all MPVs with the name “Richard” by withholding the CTP, and said if the person who posted the release “comes clean,” he may “have some discretion as to what actions I take.”

Tags: community_technology, discretion, home_server, hotfix, mail, Microsoft, Software, Windows, windows vista, windows xp

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