[slindsey]

"ReactOS™ is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft® Windows™ NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7).

The ReactOS project, although currently focused on Windows Server 2003 compatibility, is always keeping an eye toward compatibility with Windows Vista and future Windows NT releases."

I always felt that they should have focused on one, probably Windows XP, and tried for almost 100% compatibility, rather than moving the target toward later releases.

[jeroenhd]

More and more software has quickly lost XP compatibility. I'm already finding myself struggling to download software I want to try on ReactOS itself because modern browsers are essentially unsupported.

If it wants to remain relevant, it'll need SOME Windows 7 APIs at least. It doesn't need full compatibility like I think it should with older releases, but it needs to be compatible enough to run a few nice to haves as well.

[jaclaz]

Not necessarily useful/suitable for use in ReactOS, but there are a few modified "recent" browsers that do work (mostly) on XP.

Mind you it's a mess of various browsers and versions and modified ones and patches to the modified ones, but if you are interested, here is a good entry point to the rabbit hole:

https://msfn.org/board/forum/201-browsers-working-on-older-n...

[zokier]

> I always felt that they should have focused on one, probably Windows XP, and tried for almost 100% compatibility, rather than moving the target toward later releases.

But isn't that what they are doing by focusing on 2003 (which is almost the same as XP)?