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I don't see how this is connected to "cloud computing" in ANY way. People just throw in the "cloud" word anywhere, don't they?
It's a remote Windows desktop, running on a remote server and provided as SaaS. While I agree that cloud is overused in general, it seems appropriate in this case.
There's no way that a shop looking for funding via kickstarter can match the feature development of Microsoft. If you want to disrupt Microsoft, it's sure as shit not going to come from a clone of their 11 year old OS which is 4 versions back now.
This is silly. It's an XP-era clone. The only people that are hanging on to XP are people that are trapped in an echo chamber of folks that don't want to upgrade, or are encumbered by some legacy LOB application. There's no way that a shop looking for funding via kickstarter can match the feature development of Microsoft. If you want to disrupt Microsoft, it's sure as shit not going to come from a clone of their 11 y…
This is silly. It's an XP-era clone. The only people that are hanging on to XP are people that are trapped in an echo chamber of folks that don't want to upgrade, or are encumbered by some legacy LOB application. There's no way that a shop looking for funding via kickstarter can match the feature development of Microsoft. If you want to disrupt Microsoft, it's sure as shit not going to come from a clone of their 11 y…
I don't think the point is to disrupt Microsoft. There are people who think XP was a fine OS, and are building a new OS that takes its good parts, and likely adds other good parts that did not exist in the original.
I was totally hoping someone was using kickstarter to launch home nuclear power generation using thorium. That I would have funded immediately...
I get that a lot of companies still rely on Windows, but aren't we slowly edging away from really needing it? Especially when more and more software is being written in platform-agnostic languages like Java? I feel like a company willing to migrate to something like ReactOS could just as easily migrate over to some *nix variant. The only Windows-only thing that I can think of being essential would be Office (that mig…
But it's not Windows. It's a new OS that borrows a lot from an older version of Windows as far as design goes, and hopefully brings something new to the table.
And I don't really see how "needing it" or not matters. People use an OS they like, or an OS that has the features they enjoy, or an OS that is compatible with the software they use, or whatever.
> Especially when more and more software is being written in platform-agnostic languages like Java?
Really? Software has always been written in a variety of platform-agnostic languages. C and C++, to name a couple. But I see a recent trend of ignoring and dismissing portability beyond a select few favorite platforms.
Windows only? How deep in bed with the NSA are these guys?