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I disagree, the future of windows is why ReactOS is important. For the same reason DosBox is important, to run legacy apps.

10 years from now, how are you going to run those XP apps that aren't compatible with even windows 7, let alone three more cycles of ugprades.

That's what Wine is for; ReactOS borrows a ton of their code. I do wish there were more progress with Wine on Windows for 16-bit apps at least.

Wine can't run Windows device drivers, but that's a pretty narrow use case.