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Re:ReactOS by beervirus on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:03PM (#24791650)
> Eventually, XP will fail to run on new hardware, and when that happens a lot of great software will die also. Having ReactOS around means we can continually target new hardware, but still remain XP compatible.

Unless you're talking about running it on a computer that's not networked, it's already impossible to run XP safely. But Windows is really good about backwards compatibility--what XP software is there that doesn't run on Windows 10?

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Re:ReactOS by techwizard81 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:34PM (#24794308)
agreed that most software can be made to run, but not all of them. The other issue is drivers, old drivers won't work on Windows 10 but will on reactOS
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