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In general not everyone has access to all code. Microsoft has over 90k employees not counting contractors. To get access to various projects/depts source depots you have to request access. Some access is auto-approved, for instance I am auto approved for devdiv and windows source access. Others require someone approving your access request. For instance, a few months back I was seeing a really, really annoying bug in Lync, I wanted to troubleshoot it since the repro was sporadic and I wanted to include an analysis in the bug I filed. It was the I found even getting access to non-stripped Office pdbs requires special permission, I applied for it and was denied :( Sometimes the bureaucracy baffles me.


MS Money was end of life'd at the end of January 2011(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2118008 ).

It's possible that MS has archived the source off of their development repositories, since nobody should be doing anything with that code.


BTW, it is really irritating that the MSVBVM60.DLL shipped with Vista and later and the VB6 ActiveX controls shipped with MS08-070 and later has no symbols on the public symbol server (MS had provided DBGs and PDBs for older versions of these in the past).




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