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Re:ReactOS: Rebuilding Microsoft Windows from the ground up,... by joe_the_user on Saturday August 31, 2013 @07:05PM (#6308453)
Well,

Microsoft might have done ReactOS favor given the poor reception that Windows 8 has gotten. An open source OS that was a Windows 7 work-alike might see a broad market from OEMs.

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Re:ReactOS: Rebuilding Microsoft Windows from the ground up,... by pionar on Sunday September 01, 2013 @11:57AM (#6310851)
Yeah, but...

This isn't a Windows-7 workalike. It's an XP "lookalike", and a poor one at that. Not dogging the project, it's just way behind any other OS.

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Re:ReactOS: Rebuilding Microsoft Windows from the ground up,... by userulluipeste on Monday September 02, 2013 @08:47AM (#6314882)
First, ReactOS actually targets (at least for now) Windows 2003, not Windows XP. Second, you may provide a clue on the metric by which an OS is measured when you say "it's just way behind any other OS".
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