Maarten Bosma wrote:
Our Withe Paper on http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/dev_whitepaper.html says
The original target for ReactOS, with regards to driver and application compatibility, was Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. Since then, Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP have been released. Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP are both descendants of Windows NT. As such we can gradually shift our compatibility target without worrying about the architecture changing too much. In fact, internally, Windows 2000 reports version information as Windows 5.0 and Windows XP as Windows 5.1. The ReactOS team have decided to maintain Windows NT 4.0 as the official compatibility target. This is because most of the resources, articles and books on Windows NT/2000/XP technology are written for Windows NT 4.0. This does not mean that features present in later versions of Windows NT based operating systems will not be implemented in ReactOS.
Since we changed the reported version to Windows 2000, i'd say that is not true anymore is it ?
We report higher version for application compatibility reasons. It doesn't mean we're going after every win2k feature :)