[ros-dev] White Paper outdated ?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 :)