<story><title>ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility</title><url>https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-048-released</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>owenversteeg</author><text>This has been one of my favorite software projects to watch, because it&amp;#x27;s such an insanely monumental undertaking and moves so damn slowly. There were people working on this two decades ago, putting in tiny fixes and little bits of code and whatnot, and they did it even knowing that basically nobody would see their work for decades.&lt;p&gt;Hell, I have never seen a ReactOS installation in the wild, and I&amp;#x27;m the kind of person whose friends install Haiku, Nix and NetBSD as their daily drivers. And the second-hand stories I&amp;#x27;ve heard about people who did install React was basically &amp;quot;I was bored, I put it on a drive, played around for 5 minutes, and wiped it.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But that doesn&amp;#x27;t discourage them. Meanwhile, work keeps going on in the background. So many untold man-hours of thankless work going into the project, and the vast majority of that &amp;quot;hard&amp;quot; work with no payoff for years.&lt;p&gt;And now it&amp;#x27;s finally getting close to actual Windows, after decades of work, and soon (well, years, but still) people will be using it everywhere as a replacement for Windows.&lt;p&gt;This is one of the most important software projects in history. My hat is off to the ReactOS developers, and congratulations on the latest release.&lt;p&gt;[edit] Here are the names of the 75 programmers that have worked on ReactOS: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;reactos&amp;#x2F;reactos&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;CREDITS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;reactos&amp;#x2F;reactos&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;CREDITS&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>&amp;gt; soon (well, years, but still) people will be using it everywhere as a replacement for Windows.&lt;p&gt;No they won&amp;#x27;t. It&amp;#x27;s a fringe OS that requires technical expertise to install. Not only that but it looks like &amp;quot;old Windows&amp;quot;. Users won&amp;#x27;t want to work with a Windows from a decade ago. Not only that but it&amp;#x27;ll have bugs and no support.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;ll see tiny pockets of people using it but as Microsoft gets closer and closer to simply having a free OS it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem likely anyone would ever use this OS for anything beyond &amp;quot;hey, that&amp;#x27;s cool!&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility</title><url>https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-048-released</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>owenversteeg</author><text>This has been one of my favorite software projects to watch, because it&amp;#x27;s such an insanely monumental undertaking and moves so damn slowly. There were people working on this two decades ago, putting in tiny fixes and little bits of code and whatnot, and they did it even knowing that basically nobody would see their work for decades.&lt;p&gt;Hell, I have never seen a ReactOS installation in the wild, and I&amp;#x27;m the kind of person whose friends install Haiku, Nix and NetBSD as their daily drivers. And the second-hand stories I&amp;#x27;ve heard about people who did install React was basically &amp;quot;I was bored, I put it on a drive, played around for 5 minutes, and wiped it.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But that doesn&amp;#x27;t discourage them. Meanwhile, work keeps going on in the background. So many untold man-hours of thankless work going into the project, and the vast majority of that &amp;quot;hard&amp;quot; work with no payoff for years.&lt;p&gt;And now it&amp;#x27;s finally getting close to actual Windows, after decades of work, and soon (well, years, but still) people will be using it everywhere as a replacement for Windows.&lt;p&gt;This is one of the most important software projects in history. My hat is off to the ReactOS developers, and congratulations on the latest release.&lt;p&gt;[edit] Here are the names of the 75 programmers that have worked on ReactOS: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;reactos&amp;#x2F;reactos&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;CREDITS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;reactos&amp;#x2F;reactos&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;CREDITS&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shakna</author><text>&amp;gt; Hell, I have never seen a ReactOS installation in the wild&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not especially common, but I do know of a couple kiosks and a PoS system that run ReactOS under the hood to avoid Windows licensing.</text></comment>