Re: [ros-dev] White Paper outdated ?

[Royce Mitchell III]

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 :)