One important fact about Longhorn is that sadly there where a LOT of great ideas and concepts, some of wich are still not real today. But the actual Longhorn OS was nowhere near being functional, especially when it comes to all the great ideas they had.
Yeah, especially compared to the demos they showed, with the never released features and the awesome animations. I mean something as simple as a seamless transition from the boot screen to the login, surely that can be done with UEFI, but it's one of those things that hasn't ever been implemented, and that's just one of the many features
To be honest, Longhorn has my favorite aesthetic design out of any Windows OS. It has in my opinion, the right balance between skeumorphism and minimalism, with a nicely subdued color palette. It's like if you took all the design elements I like from XP, Vista, and Win10.
Whats about the animations in the windows, like these of Apple?. In this case, I read, compiz used in GNU+Linux was the young people designers fired from Microsoft when the development of Longhorn?
Used it before as well,This was going to be released after Windows XP days,Microsoft also scrap it,Then they released Windows Vista,I used the beta version on my other old gaming computer,Looked like a nice version of Windows,Shame it never got released,I did not really like Windows Vista to much,Amount of times it crashed
Yeah nice of Dave to chime in about behind the scenes of Longhorn. It helps to corroborate the reason why Longhorn started from scratch, and on the server codebase.
One important fact about Longhorn is that sadly there where a LOT of great ideas and concepts, some of wich are still not real today. But the actual Longhorn OS was nowhere near being functional, especially when it comes to all the great ideas they had.
Yeah, especially compared to the demos they showed, with the never released features and the awesome animations. I mean something as simple as a seamless transition from the boot screen to the login, surely that can be done with UEFI, but it's one of those things that hasn't ever been implemented, and that's just one of the many features
I remember being 9 year old, installing vista for the first time. It felt like I was using an OS you see on movies, the futuristic ones.
That was the fun feeling of it.
Excellent
If i would install it today, i would feel the same way. Win 11 is great but it still needs fine tuning here and there. Vista was ahead of its time
I was so excited about Longhorn when I first heard about it. There were so many new concepts and it looked so cool.
I always thought Longhorn was the project codename for Windows 7 even this looks better than 11
To be honest, Longhorn has my favorite aesthetic design out of any Windows OS. It has in my opinion, the right balance between skeumorphism and minimalism, with a nicely subdued color palette. It's like if you took all the design elements I like from XP, Vista, and Win10.
vista and 7 still look better than 10/11 today...windows 10 so bland :/
Don't look at 2020s interior design if you don't like bland, shits win10 irl
Whats about the animations in the windows, like these of Apple?. In this case, I read, compiz used in GNU+Linux was the young people designers fired from Microsoft when the development of Longhorn?
How risky would it be to take this OS online and use it as a daily driver?
About as risky as XP, most likely. That's if you can even get it to stay online long enough before it crashes
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longhorn is beta version of vista duh
And is better than vista
pre-reset Longhorn isn't, it is a branch that just died out when Vista was rebased on Server 2003 x64 code
Used it before as well,This was going to be released after Windows XP days,Microsoft also scrap it,Then they released Windows Vista,I used the beta version on my other old gaming computer,Looked like a nice version of Windows,Shame it never got released,I did not really like Windows Vista to much,Amount of times it crashed
Love it's look
its
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windows 11 is so fugly compared with that. bring back aero glass !!!
If Microsoft would just bring back the transparent Windows, the UI wouldn’t look so flat and dull like the 90s…
A time when reporting opinion to MS would really ve relevant to users
*could be.
Could also be real a situation when MS actually cared about users. Now feels like nothing they do makes any sense.
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the best part was that its based on Windows XP making Longhorn the succesor to XP
Longhorn>>>.vista
Vista was the slowest running operating system. Also per Dave Cutler Longhorn was the worst code ever written.
Yeah nice of Dave to chime in about behind the scenes of Longhorn. It helps to corroborate the reason why Longhorn started from scratch, and on the server codebase.
I wouldn't trust Dave tbh considering he created malicious software I think in 2006 or 2005, pretty good Enderman subject on it