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Is the world ready for a bare-metal OS/2 rebirth?

Wilco

Security and Windows support

How secure is this going to be? In the 90s security from malware wasn't really on the agenda. Surely both the apps and the OS are going to be riddled with the type of issues that get patched every day on the Windows. I did a lot of OS/2 programming back in the 90s and any of the web stuff I did would I'm sure be massively vulnerable.

Adding to that is the fact that I would be astonished if the windows app support worked for 64 bit apps, and pretty surprised if any recent win32 app requiring windows 8 or .net framework 4.5+ worked on OS/2. The windows support was the result of a cross licensing agreements with MS that have doubtless long since expired.

So although there will be fewer people trying, if anyone does it's not going to take them long to get in.

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