<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>bitL</author><text>Recently I had an issue activating XP on Eee PC after a RAM&amp;#x2F;SSD upgrade (setting it up as a retro-gaming console, better performance than RetroPie). I had to resort to registry hacks and msoobe to suppress activation forever, despite having product key at the back of the netbook - XP CD wasn&amp;#x27;t accepting it at all. One more situation where legal owners have to waste more time than pirates... If ReactOS makes it far enough to run on Eee PC, I&amp;#x27;ll get rid of XP.</text></item><item><author>rocky1138</author><text>What I like about this project, besides the dedication and professionalism of the team behind it, is that it offers PC gamers a possible way to play Windows-era games moving forward. In a decade or two, we likely won&amp;#x27;t be able to activate a Windows XP machine (and wouldn&amp;#x27;t want to with all of the security hazards either) so it&amp;#x27;s great to have a free and open source project to run our Windows stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heywire</author><text>I use a lot of virtual machines across all versions of Windows.  What I&amp;#x27;ve found is that almost every time online activation fails, if I do the telephone activation, it goes though.  Just wanted to pass that along in case you or someone else runs into this again.</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>bitL</author><text>Recently I had an issue activating XP on Eee PC after a RAM&amp;#x2F;SSD upgrade (setting it up as a retro-gaming console, better performance than RetroPie). I had to resort to registry hacks and msoobe to suppress activation forever, despite having product key at the back of the netbook - XP CD wasn&amp;#x27;t accepting it at all. One more situation where legal owners have to waste more time than pirates... If ReactOS makes it far enough to run on Eee PC, I&amp;#x27;ll get rid of XP.</text></item><item><author>rocky1138</author><text>What I like about this project, besides the dedication and professionalism of the team behind it, is that it offers PC gamers a possible way to play Windows-era games moving forward. In a decade or two, we likely won&amp;#x27;t be able to activate a Windows XP machine (and wouldn&amp;#x27;t want to with all of the security hazards either) so it&amp;#x27;s great to have a free and open source project to run our Windows stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lammy</author><text>It sounds like you were trying to activate the OEM key on your netbook using retail media.</text></comment>