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Ask Soylent: Can We Turn ReactOS into a Viable Alternative to Windows 10?

posted by n1 on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-put-a-man-on-the-moon,-but-we-wont-do-that dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Microsoft's telemetry features in Windows 10 are a privacy advocate's nightmare. Now that Microsoft is trying to back port these "features" into existing versions of Windows, it seems like many of us have no future upgrade path. Sure there is Linux, but I have some older Windows software that I still want to use. ReactOS is still out there, but does not look like there have been any updates in a while.

Does the Soylent community believe it is possible to get this project going full steam to producing a useable alternative for existing Windows users?

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  • (Score: 2) by meisterister on Thursday October 22 2015, @12:10AM

    by meisterister (949) on Thursday October 22 2015, @12:10AM (#252997) Journal

    ...realistically, no.

    It is technically possible to completely reverse-engineer Windows, including all of its quirks, but realistically speaking that would cost millions of dollars and take a large team of people years to do.

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