I've noticed a couple things over the last half decade:
- Windows has gone very stagnant IMO. Sure they might have a bunch of new apis for 8/10, but... are there killer apps for them?
- Windows is no longer in growth phase. COVID computer demand surge is a temporary measure, and will probably be followed with a long shallow valley
- ARM is coming on the desktop, and it's going to destroy Windows backwards compatibility. That creates a tentpole point for ReactOS to target for compatibility, and likely something that, like Dosbox, microsoft would de facto embrace to alleviate itself of pressures of backwards compatibility
So I think ReactOS could settle into the "backwards compatibility VM" that windows could (should) actively support so they can move onto a new processor architecture.
- Windows has gone very stagnant IMO. Sure they might have a bunch of new apis for 8/10, but... are there killer apps for them?
- Windows is no longer in growth phase. COVID computer demand surge is a temporary measure, and will probably be followed with a long shallow valley
- ARM is coming on the desktop, and it's going to destroy Windows backwards compatibility. That creates a tentpole point for ReactOS to target for compatibility, and likely something that, like Dosbox, microsoft would de facto embrace to alleviate itself of pressures of backwards compatibility
So I think ReactOS could settle into the "backwards compatibility VM" that windows could (should) actively support so they can move onto a new processor architecture.