What shall we do with Vista?

AlexT2889 said:

Can someone elaborate a little more on "Longhorn" I always thought Vista WAS Longhorn...just froze development in 2004 and then resumed in 2005. It seems Longhorn is a completely different OS from what I'm reading on here. Also I read someplace that there are videos of the Longhorn UI? What does it look like? WHAT Longhorn features still linger in Vista and 7? Just curious :)

Windows Vista's codename was Longhorn.

Just as Windows Seven codename is 7.

I believe Windows XP was codename Blackcomb as well.

AlexT2889 said:

XP was Whistler, Vista was both Longhorn/Blackcomb, then 7 retook the name Blackcomb then Vienna...I honestly wish Microsoft went with Vienna...sounds nicer than "7", either way we're gonna have to type "Win7" or "Se7en" just for noobs to know what we're even talking about lol.

Apperently MS cannot make up their mind with 'who gets what codename'.

AlexT2889 said:

I also wish Microsoft had modified the Vista Aurora theme a little more in depth, than just pasting over some weird drug-influenced ribbons and birds, bugs etc etc. It just gives that "generic" vibe to it compared to Apples overall theme.

Eh.. Compared to XP, Vista (visually) owned XP.

holo88 said:

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sorry, i had too.

nice post...

The only problems I had with Vista was its slow performance. Once I got two 1 GB sticks of RAM, Vista ran smooth. I didn't have high expectations for Vista because the computer I was using prior to Vista was a load of crap.

AlexT2889 said:

Can someone elaborate a little more on "Longhorn" I always thought Vista WAS Longhorn...just froze development in 2004 and then resumed in 2005. It seems Longhorn is a completely different OS from what I'm reading on here. Also I read someplace that there are videos of the Longhorn UI? What does it look like? WHAT Longhorn features still linger in Vista and 7? Just curious :)

Windows Lognhorn was originally ment to be the OS "In between".

Kinda of like Windows 7 is Vista+, Longhorn was XP+ (in a manner of speaking). and Promised to be Released in 2003

Early Longhorn builds were even named "Longhorn XP Professional" In fact, That's what most Longhorn M3 Builds were named. (Such as Build 3718) Build 3683 Desktop(Look at the Build name)

It Became apparent though by PDC 03 that Microsoft was planning a little differently than people had thought, and they were going to make LH into a Major release.

In WinHec 2004, Longhorn build 4074 was leaked. This build was Horible.
Here is a Image of the Desktop of LH Build 4074 "The WinHec Build"

Longhorn was Very buggy, And Very in-complete. The Filesystem they were working on (WinFS) also was a diseaster. By This point, No one thought Longhorn would make it to gold in time for a 2005 release.

In 2004 Geeks and Microsoft started to realize their was no real future in Longhorn, Built on a Old, Buggy, Junked-up codebase, Longhorn was deemed a failure and in 2005 the "Longhorn Reset" Happened.

Longhorn 5048 The WinHec "Longhorn Developer Preview"

Build 5112 "Vista" Beta 1
Build 5259
Build 5385 "Vista" Beta 2

When the Reset happened Longhorn went from being XP+ to Being "Server: Home and Office" -My Nickname for Vista/7

Also, There have been many "Longhorn revival" projects. All have failed though. The one that got closest to "Reviving Longhorn" was "Longhorn Fusion" Which was in fact a project aimed at bringing the Longhorn look and feel to Vista. Though now With windows 7 the LHF team has stopped development on LHF and gone onto some new ideas.