Microsoft cracks down after blog leak
Microsoft is sending in the spies after a preview version of Windows Home Server was leaked to TheHotfix.net blog by a user named "Richard" soon after it was released to a small group of testers. In an email to testers, Kevin Beares, the Windows Home Server community lead at Microsoft, told Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) whose name contain "Richard" that they will not have access to the beta until he finds out who is behind the leak. MVPs are people Microsoft considers helpful in its product group communities, 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 email said. "I will work with the Connect Admin team to determine which one of you is the real culprit of this leak."
Beares apologised for having to punish all MVPs with the name "Richard", and said if the person who posted the release "comes clean," he may "have some discretion as to what actions I take."
