Leaks, Richards, and MVPs
I like to monitor the blogsphere for posts on home servers (e.g. this feed). There were no shortage of posts that popped up last week regarding reports that some "Richard" leaked a CTP (Community Technology Preview) of Windows Home Server without Microsoft's authorization.
What a bummer. I mean, it stinks that people violate non-disclosures like this. Trust worthy computing is one of Microsoft's core tenets and as such we take public distribution of pre-release software very seriously. The leak was unfortunate, and we took action to find the parties responsible. We are happy to report that has happened. I don't personally know, nor do I care to know, who the actual person was, but I have heard that he/she wasn't a "Richard".
The real bummer, though, is some news media inaccurately implicated Microsoft MVPs as the source of the disclosure. As I think it is well known, we are big fans of the MVPs, and we're happy to clarify that no MVPs were involved in this breach.
We wanted to clear that up because it's really unfair to the MVP program and the MVPs themselves.
-cek