Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Dec 2006 22:58 UTC, submitted by frik85
ReactOS, the open source implementation of a Windows XP/2003 compatible operating system, just published a new interview in their series of interviews with ReactOS developers. Today's interview features the developer Johannes Anderwald, who has worked on source compatibility with Visual Studio Development Suite lately.
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Backwards compatability is essential for MS as most people won't upgrade to the lateat version of windows until all their favorite apps will run on it.
One of many reasons ReactOS is much smaller than a standard XP install is the fact that many apps that are automatically installed by XP are not in ReactOS, plus there are other services/enhancements/bloatware (please choose whatever one you beleive) that have not been worked on fully yet, so by the time we start to see "rock solid" versions the install size may well be more than 40meg.