You'd think that ReactOS barely runs some Windows apps, but its innovative development team want to prove us otherwise and they recently managed to record a screen capture of the Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" operating system running inside ReactOS via the well-known PearPC architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator. You can now emulate various operating systems inside ReactOS
It also introduced initial support for reading data from NTFS formatted drives, a new app similar to the DrWatson32 software for Windows, some user-visible changes like support for balloon notifications in the system tray area and support for unmounting network drives directly from the file explorer.
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The latest release, ReactOS 0.4.8, showed us last month that it's now possible to use Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows Vista software on the free and open-source operating system that's binary compatible with computer programs and device drivers made for Windows. Our "Watch" series of articles continues today with a very interesting one where you can see Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger running inside the ReactOS computer operating system, which we believe has come a long way, and it's beginning to look like a viable alternative to Microsoft's Windows 7 or Vista operating systems, perfect for desktop computers and laptops. The ReactOS project recently showcased on YouTube that's possible to virtualize the Mac OS X 10.4 operating system on their free and open-source Windows alternative operating system.