ReactOS, the open source implementation of a Windows XP/2003 compatible operating system, does support now Intel Mac computers with bootcamp installed and Parallels' virtual machine. Furthermore the new ReactOS roadmap has been published yesterday. Today's interview features ReactOS developer and former project coordinator, Steven Edwards. Read it all on the ReactOS website.
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Member since:2006-11-30
"There will still be millions of copies of Office 95, 97, XP, 2000, 2003, and 2007 out there that people will be able to run on ReactOS."
99.999% of which runs on legal copies of Windows which they got when they bought the computer. That's the problem with ReactOS - ppl who switch from Windows to another OS do so because they want something else than Windows, not because they save money. It's a sad fact that MS has this kind of market power, but it's been the way of things for 15+ years and will only get worse, unless Linux gains critical mass on the desktop (which is years away I think, if at all)
Member since:2006-04-18
"99.999% of which runs on legal copies of Windows which they got when they bought the computer. That's the problem with ReactOS - ppl who switch from Windows to another OS do so because they want something else than Windows, not because they save money"
I have to disagree...Though I'm not the "average" user, I fit into your qualification of "ppl" <grin>. I am waiting to switch to ReactOS because I want my O.S. to be Windows compatible *and* unobtrusive. I don't want to have to deal with WGA, WPA, Windows Media installations by default or even IE. I don't *need* MS to tell me what's in my best interest to have installed on my computer by default-I'm quite capable of making that decision by myself.
If I had an O.S. that Ran MS software, but was small, lightweight and completely customizeable, you bet I'd switch-in a heartbeat.
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2005-07-11
The problem with your statements dear McDuck, is that when Vista arrives, the 10 years+ of previous Windows compatible software won't disappear from the planet...
There will still be millions of copies of Office 95, 97, XP, 2000, 2003, and 2007 out there that people will be able to run on ReactOS.
There will still be Mozilla Browsers.
There will still be millions of copies of Quicken, and TurboTax and WordPerfect, and tons of other applications that will run.
And ReactOS will allow people like me to take an old computer that I don't have a Windows License for, load it up with an OS and gift it to someone. And NOT have to get complaints that they can't buy software for it.
ReactOS will be an incredible asset once it reaches 1.0 status. And if all the naysayers put their energy and time being detractors of ReactOS into supporting it and writing code... we'd probably have a 1.0 version by now.
I'm not a coder. So I send money when I can. And I tell people about it.
ReactOS is a GOOD thing, and the people working on it are amazing.