The ReactOS free software project is turning 30 this year and its “open-source Windows” OS ambitions remain. They are starting out this year with another “major step” towards Windows NT 6.0 compatibility.

ReactOS developers shared that after months of prep work, their MSVCRT implementation in ReactOS has been synced against the Wine 10.0 state. MSVCRT is the DLL as part of the Microsoft C Runtime library.

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    2 days ago

    Some commercial, science, and industrial machines require specific versions of windows, which this can imitate. Old MS Windows is of our development and very vulnerable it allowed on the internet. My giant organisation had until recently a 16 bit PC because it carried an ISA card that formatted a particular letter. Management only authorised a replacement (use of current software tools to make the letter, make a data path from the legacy system that collates the letter data to our newer system) when one of the two machines died and couldn’t be repaired due to lack of parts