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CowboyTeal writes:
"Windows 8 is still being disputed as either the product of a genius or a nerdy sadist but that doesn't mean Windows 9 isn't in the works. That said, how would you guys improve Windows if you could change anything about it? Has windows 8 improved or degraded your overall experience of the Windows platform? If you're not a Windows user, what features would you like to see in Windows for possible assimilation?"
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(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:15AM
ReactOS is Free Software. You could probably use it right now.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by linsane on Sunday March 02 2014, @12:15PM
Have been keeping an eye on that for a while - given that they are doing it on a shoestring it is very impressive indeed. Hopefully their recent kickstarter and associated fund-raising https://www.reactos.org/donations [reactos.org] will get this to the point of widespread usability before everyone's XP support ends. Here's to hoping anyhow
(Score: 1) by tangomargarine on Monday March 03 2014, @10:11PM
From what I've been hearing the last few years, it sounds like every time I think they're about ready to fiiiiiiinally kick it into beta, they decide to overhaul and replace one of the major system components (Explorer, sound, USB...). And I can only assume that Microsoft will figure out a way to sue them to kingdom come and back as soon as they try to release a working product.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @03:07AM
I'll start by assuming that folks here know that ReactOS and WINE share a significant portion of their respective codebases.
Any Windoze app developer who doesn't check his executables against WINE simply shrinks his potential market.
...then there are guys who have done it right for over a decade [google.com] and whose app has become the most-used in its category (aka the industry standard) over roughly the same time period because that app is now cross-platform.
-- gewg_