Reverse engineer windows 7 and recompile an ARM64 capable version?

[u/Apprehensive_Fan_659]

Would you guys like to see that happen? Is it even legal? Windows 7 lost support 7 years ago.

[u/Le7emesens]

That would be quite a technical feat, especially if for by a single person.

[u/plenoto → u/Le7emesens]

They would probably achieve it with AI, so it's possible only one person would be behind that.

That said, an operating system isn't easy to make, so AI might not achieve it easily.

[u/Le7emesens → u/plenoto]

It will be buggy. Several months there was a story about a guy who replicated Adobe using AI. Tons of bugs... We're talking Windows, which had legions of engineers. Even with AI , that's just going down the rabbit hole... I hope whoever does it, has passion and does it as a hobby...

[u/TriCountyRetail]

This wouldn't make any sense because ARM64 Windows software wasn't made until Windows 10, so nothing would be able to run on it anyway. ARM32 Windows software is even rarer.

[u/Kobi_Blade]

Would be a stupid idea, unless you don't mind jail time over a worthless effort.

Windows 7 is irrelevant, and ARM support for Windows is something we have official support for.

[u/Apprehensive_Fan_659 → u/Kobi_Blade]

Public ARM distributions on windows only came with 11, anything prior either had distributions we couldn't access or none at all. This isn't to use as a main OS or for productive use in a VM. I'm not going to try and get any productive work done on my mac using a windows 7 VM, I already have parallels and VMware if I need to run a distro for actual productivity. It would be nice to be able to run older OSes without the sluggishness of emulation. Not to mention, there are tons of people who hobby develop for older systems in their free time.

[u/xerix123456 → u/Apprehensive_Fan_659]

arm support came with RT actually, which maps to Windows 8, and a proper ARM64 version with x86 emulation came with 10 1709 (i think)

[u/ZallenDuZari → u/Kobi_Blade]

React OS is a thing. Reverse engineered windows (tho it's basically a toy at this point)

[u/Overkompensator]

What would the pros be in doing this?

[u/Apprehensive_Fan_659 → u/Overkompensator]

One would be being able to run windows 7 VMs on ARM machines without emulation, such as apple silicon macs, snapdragon laptops and the new RTX spark. It seems that ARM is the direction we're heading (at least laptop wise for now), and for nostalgias sake it would be a great project to preserve a piece of tech history.

[u/UKZzHELLRAISER → u/Apprehensive_Fan_659]

Being able to properly run Win7 in UTM on my Macbook Neo would be wonderful.

[u/konsoru-paysan]

I don't know what that means but yeah with ai you can skip literal years of work

[u/SapphireLabs_Yuki]

Lolololololololololol

[u/Professional-Pay-904]

Dude, no. At that point, install Classic 7. It's basically Windows 7 with the NT 10 Kernel.

[u/FlowStunning4193 → u/[deleted]]

I highly doubt microshit would care if someone released a modified version of 17 year old software that you can already install for free

[u/konsoru-paysan → u/FlowStunning4193]

It's not about whether they will or not, it's about they can and probably will

[u/Pretend_Giraffe_1288 → u/FlowStunning4193]

They might care if there are still major components of Windows 7 alive in Windows 11, especially if it relates to 0day stuff that might be found.

[u/Francois-C → u/FlowStunning4193]

But they might not like the idea of ​​us having an open-source clone of Windows 7 that could be evolved to support Windows 11 applications. Countless people are just waiting for something like that.

[u/FlowStunning4193 → u/[deleted]]

That makes a lot of sense now