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But it had the same problems as Linux: it was very specific as to what hardware it supports.
However, I've briefly used NT4 as my "development box" (Delphi addict for a while, though in my defense, I was like 15 at the time) for 6-12 months, that was as stable as anything you could get. I get no joy using it, but I guess if you are used to working in Windows the OS is perfectly fine for what it does.īefore committing to GNU/Linux in 1998 or 99, I've had a similar experience with moving away from DOS/Windows for workgroups 3.11 to '95: Windows 95 tried to achieve too much in terms of backwards compatibility between 16- and 32-bit software, and was very flimsy as a result. It looks cleaner but behind the veneer its just a giant heap of historical accidents piled on over the years, with no consistent direction of vision to be found. They work, behind the scenes the technology has improved, but I they still annoy me in many ways, and the UI is IMO the worst it has ever been in the history of Windows. I don't care for any of the 'modern' Windows versions. The very first thing I always did was to switch back to the classic UI for everything (theme, start menu, all control panels, etc).
#Windows xp source code professional#
I also think the default theme and general visual style of the XP is downright terrible and completely unworthy of a large professional company like Microsoft. What I remember from XP is that it took until SP2 before all the problems were worked out, and SP3 actually introduced more annoyances in the name of security. This is no different.Totally my experience as well, Windows 2000 really was the only Windows version I actually liked, it had very few faults for its time. That's how pretty much all science, including computer science, works. That is how innovation works: you are learning how something was done before and usingem that information to drive the creation of something better. Every OS clone in the history of computing started with reverse engineering the existing OS and using that as a guide to create something new.
#Windows xp source code software#
However, using the source code as a reference to see how things are done, how functions work, what the design process behind a particular functionality is, so you can use that as a reference when creating your own new software is absolutely a tried and true software development process. I don't think anyone is saying "Hey let's go grabb the leaked source code and just copy and paste it into ReactOS and we're done!" I've done enough software development to know that wouldn't work anyway More of these ideas will not help your account to survive very long. I only accepted this one as I can make it a sticky post for the next intelligent ideas regarding that crap code.
#Windows xp source code mod#
Resulting of that leak we have to be even more careful what pull requests we accept and what we don't.Īnd now the mod part. MS will happily shoot a volley of lawyers at both projects and wipe them off existence. Using it anyways will be the best way to completely destroy both projects.
#Windows xp source code license#
This code is completely ILLEGAL to use for ANYTHING as it's MS' intellectual property under their license and we are VERY likely not allowed by MS to relicense it to a GPL compatible license which we could use. It causes even more possible developer candidates to be of zero use as you are tainted by our definition if you looked at leaked or not MS code or worked for MS. This code is the pure evil incarnated for WineHQ and our project. Nope, I am no software developer, but an IT guy with at least some skills in understanding what is right and what is wrong! Nothing was handed at us as we remove any traces to that leak off our forums, chat and Wiki immediately and if ppl dare to repost it, they are perma banned for being a threat to our project. a bunch of 4chan idiots steal MS code and we happily use the loot as we want.