bruce511 last Saturday at 7:03 PM

I guess I have two thoughts that spring to mind regarding this;

A) why?

B) they can't. Because XP is not like some notepad app someone wrote. Rather it is a collection of software, a lot of it owned by not-microsoft and licensed to them. And that's before we talk about the security implications to existing systems still running XP.

Thirdly, what possible benefit could they get for doing this? I can see plenty of down-sides, including some very large potential economic and legal downsides. But I can't think of an upside.

Panzerschrek yesterday at 4:53 PM

https://github.com/DeDf/winxp_source

Knowing that Github is owned by Microsoft, they probably are fine with it.

Kwpolska last Saturday at 8:22 PM

Windows is continuously developed, and many parts of it changed very little between XP and 11. Not going to happen.

yonatan8070 today at 4:27 AM

And I'd like to request 5 billion dollars be transferred to my account

d3Xt3r last Saturday at 10:54 PM

ReactOS already exists and targets the API level as XP. You can even install the same Luna theme that XP used to make it look like XP.

efren6 last Saturday at 9:13 PM

Download any windows installtion on The internet

rvz last Saturday at 5:55 PM

Lets say that I am Microsoft:

Why?

meltyness last Saturday at 5:40 PM

... this leaked 6 years ago?

rbmm yesterday at 3:36 PM

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mirmor23 last Saturday at 7:13 PM

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Ask HN: I'd like to request Microsoft open source Windows XP

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