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on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:08PM
from the we-put-a-man-on-the-moon,-but-we-wont-do-that dept.
from the we-put-a-man-on-the-moon,-but-we-wont-do-that dept.
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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 22 2015, @01:50AM
OS/2 used to run all Windows applications. Some applications ran even better than in Windows. That would be a good place to start.
Buy eComStation (using crowd-funding) and work from there. Update the APIs and add new ones to run Windows applications natively.
I am wishing for too much.
(Score: 3, Informative) by dry on Thursday October 22 2015, @03:59AM
OS/2 came with a real version of Windows 3.1, which is why it could run most Windows programs, at least until MS broke it with Win32s by loading some of the DLLs into high memory that OS/2 couldn't access at the time.