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Buddabing:
Perhaps someday we can use ReactOS.
Howard_Casto:
Unlikely....

Emulating/simulating an entire operating system is a huge task, especially when the os in question is closed source.  Considering xp is now dead and they are just in the alpha stages of supporting xp apps, I wouldn't hold my breath. 
ChadTower:

XP is far from dead.  Hell it wasn't that long ago they stopped supporting 98se.  I'll probably still be running XP in 5 years.
Howard_Casto:
No, don't misunderstand.  It's dead because upcoming directx10 games aren't going to run (or run as well) on xp apparently.  M$ can support a os until the cows come home, but once the first killer app that only runs in vista is released it is essentually dead as the masses will all migrate to vista.  That is apparently sooner than later. 
Grasshopper:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 09, 2007, 10:31:24 pm ---Unlikely....

Emulating/simulating an entire operating system is a huge task, especially when the os in question is closed source.  Considering xp is now dead and they are just in the alpha stages of supporting xp apps, I wouldn't hold my breath. 

--- End quote ---

It's certainly a big task but by no means an impossible one. In any case you don't have to emulate the whole OS just the API which is (mostly) open source and well documented.

There's already WINE on Linux which does a pretty good job on most non-games apps so that proves it's doable.
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