Source code is the language that humans use to program computers — nothing less, nothing more. Although it may be based on familiar words and structures, it’s not human language.

As part of that, the company's Enterprise Source Licensing Program currently gives about 1,600 customers in 27 countries access to licenses for the Windows source code, Microsoft claims.

Microsoft last week said that incomplete portions of its closely-guarded Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 source code, the blueprints of the operating system software, had been leaked on the Internet.

Rather than the 8TB upload that decompressed into 32TB, the owner of Beta Archive revealed that the source code upload was just 1.2GB, notes The Verge.

Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its source code available on GitHub, except for a few components that are part of Windows.