Microsoft also has released this code at computerhistory.org, and I think they also have it in their github repos, so I have no idea why this person even wants to host it on github anyway. Maybe to preserve it in case computerhistory.org goes down. There are articles and blogs about the various source codes Microsoft donated to them, so they are official.
In any case, OP should post Microsoft's officially released version (also the Windows 2000 code that was originally leaked as well, and versions of DOS, Win 3.11, and so on), and not some random person's copy of it. The one on computerhistory.org is guaranteed to be exactly what Microsoft had. The one this random person posted could literally be anything, because who knows what changes may have been made before uploading it to a personal account?
This is precisely why one of the HN rules is to favour original sources. Random copies of things officially available are dangerous.
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In any case, OP should post Microsoft's officially released version (also the Windows 2000 code that was originally leaked as well, and versions of DOS, Win 3.11, and so on), and not some random person's copy of it. The one on computerhistory.org is guaranteed to be exactly what Microsoft had. The one this random person posted could literally be anything, because who knows what changes may have been made before uploading it to a personal account?
This is precisely why one of the HN rules is to favour original sources. Random copies of things officially available are dangerous.