[LINK] Fwd: A new O/S for Windows applications

[David Lochrin]

It seems there's a new open-source O/S known as ReactOS which will run Windows applications.  From my SourceForge newsletter:

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ReactOS Is the June Project of the Month

The June SourceForge Project of the Month is ReactOS, a free, modern operating system written completely from scratch and based on the design of Windows XP/2003.

We chatted with Aleksey Bragit, and you can read that conversation on the SourceForge blog at
http://newsletter.sourceforge.net/ct.html?ufl=0&rtr=on&s=x8pb08,1ir1k,10s8,5ymj,3e6e,j4w,1yt6
and download ReactOS at:
http://newsletter.sourceforge.net/ct.html?ufl=0&rtr=on&s=x8pb08,1ir1k,10s8,kwut,5j8f,j4w,1yt6
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The website states:

"ReactOS is an operating system implementing the NT kernel with a win32 subsystem, which would allow the use of both Windows drivers and applications on a non-Microsoft developed OS.  The project goal is often oversimplified as a “clone” of Microsoft Windows, but that is not an accurate description.  After all, one cannot clone a programming interface, one can only implement it."

and

"ReactOS is actually an implementation targeting the NT5.2 kernel, more generally known as Windows Server 2003 SP1 or XP SP3.  And based on the disgruntlement with the direction Microsoft has taken with Windows 8, there does seem to be considerable interest in an implementation of the NT operating system that adheres to a more traditional desktop environment."


I wonder what Microsoft think, and whether it uses any of the work done with Crossover Office?

David L.