Fans Of Longhorn Rebuilding It
Mary Jo Foley writes about members of the Joejoe.org site, who are taking the 2004 WinHEC build of Longhorn, which contained mountains of code that never made it into Windows Vista, and putting together Longhorn Reloaded, their version of what the final release might have looked like had Longhorn development not been famously reset later on. Milestone 1 has been released, based on Build 4074, complete with WinFS (the revolutionary file system we never got with Vista), and we’ll just have to wait and see how angry the lawyers are.
According to Paul Thurrot, Cease and Desist Letters have already been sent, and the download is no longer available by standard channels. I imagine still available on Private FTP and torrent but i wouldn’t know!
Comment by TheThirdEye | June 5, 2007
Use it for about 10 minutes, and I guarantee you’ll go running back to Vista and thanking God that Microsoft didn’t go this route. Vista is far and away a better user experience.
Comment by Robert McLaws | June 5, 2007