Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th May 2007 15:07 UTC, submitted by PlatformAgnostic
Alex Ionescu, one of the lead developers behind the ReactOS project, has published a detailed article on the XP/Vista application compatibility system. "For the last few days, I've been intimately becoming aquainted with a piece of technology in Windows XP and Vista that rarely gets the attention it deserves. It has raised my esteem and admiration towards Microsoft ten fold, and I feel it would be wise to share it, publicize it, and then of course, find (positive) ways to exploit it to turn it into a powerful backend for various purposes."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Oh yeah, because a modular compatiblity system that isn't hard-coded is such a mess
It's by no means modular. It does various specific, and probably unspeakable, things right down to a per-application basis - and it seems to modify the system in ways which makes an application think it is running under another version of Windows. DOSBox does a better job of this.
It's not as if this is merely a compatibility library that makes previous versions of components available to applications that need them.
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Oh yeah, because a modular compatiblity system that isn't hard-coded is such a mess :rolleyes: