[QUOTE="ElvisNixon"]this does not pass the smell test.or else it doesn't violate the patents but doesn't actually work and has no compatibility with games/DX10 whatsoever. if anyone here is so excited about this OS, i advise them to back up their files before installing it. If you are calling the product a buggy POS, then, how dare you insult them like that?!!!?
would MS release the rights for dx10 for free? What about all the others windows components that will be needed to be licensed to run windows games? basically, this would mean that MS just sold off their monopoly to an unknown internet poster. how come this is not reported in the business journals. How come the stock price of MS is relatively the same. The poster is being vague and evasive. This project would be massive, yet this one forum thread with vauge facts is their only PR effort. He won't name any co developers, even as he states there are some who have chosen not to be anonymous. Won't indicate any sort of completion estimate.
Logic dictates that this product will never exist, or if it does exist, it violates MS patents.
blue_sparks
j/k seriously, 2 options arise
1) these are hackers who are basically making a windows shell stripped of DRM and Windows authentication, that can run vista progs. if this is the case, then the two issues are 1) can they make a workable product-- a big question-- and, 2) how will MS respond. it can be understood that MS has not authorized any undertaking under this option.
2) these are licensed developers, acting under the authority of MS. But see my above post. For the reasons i set forth, i find this possibility highly unlikely. If they are somehow licensed, of course, they still have to produce a workable product. But of course, why would MS allow a 3rd party to produce a vista shell and give it away for free, one that will allow any computer to run vista programs without paying MS a dime, thereby giving away the empire that made Bill Gates the richest man in the world.
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