Longhorn Reloaded - What Vista Might Have Been
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversYou may remember Windows Longhorn as the codename for the project that eventually led to Windows Vista. But some folks out there aren’t satisfied with that explanation. They say Longhorn was meant to be much more, before Microsoft changes its goals for the final release, stripping the new WinFS file system among other things.
Vista was instead built from the Windows Server 2003 kernel. But the Joejoe Group has gone back to the earlier build 4074 of Longhorn and continued development from there. The group has now released the unofficial (and unsupported by Microsoft) Longhorn Reloaded M1 Technical Refresh. The latest version can be installed on a partitioned hard drive along with your native operating system.
Longhorn Reloaded features temporarily abandoned by Microsoft like WinFS, and features that eventually found their way into Vista like Aero. So far, Microsoft hasn’t sent any cease and desists to the Joejoe group, but the Longhorn Reloaded is almost certainly a violation of Microsoft’s terms of service, so it’ll be interesting to see how the project develops both from a technical and a legal standpoint. Right now, you can download the operating system for free. Don’t expect all of your XP or Vista drivers to work though.
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Comments(9)
"right now, you can download the operating system for free. don’t expect all of your xp
or vista drivers to work though." then why download it? gezzzzzzz get out of the past,
"he joejoe group has gone back to the earlier build 4074 of longhorn and continued
development from there."
development? what development? they don't have the
source code -- they can't "develop" anything.
this is totally stupid. it's
just an early beta of vista with a few hacks added on.
where can i download it? i got a torrent, but doesnt work
if you go to their home page (use google to find it) and click on the download link, you
get this message:
we apologise, but we can no longer supply a download for this
release of longhorn reloaded.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha what a bunch of morons.
they aren't "developing" anything.
they're just hacking an old old old alpha verison of vista and and microsoft shut them
down.
sorry, maybe you are stupid, just red the forum, they got mail from m$ to remove any
links to that release.. i must get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes they got mail from ms to remove it. that's because it's a hacked version of vista.
anybody who puts up a website offering free downloads of windows is going to get whacked
by ms. that just shows how stupid they really are.
but that doesn't change
the fact that their whole project is stupid, pointless and just total nonsense.
they are not developing a new version of longhorn. they are not "developing" anything.
they are just adding some hacks to an old old old alpha version of vista.
unless you gimme a proof of what you're saying, you are wrong!
i've got three different releases of longhorn. i tried them out so long ago that i
don't remember how well they worked.
i agree, this is stupid, they have no source code, are not developers, and this is a
complete waste of time for everyone... even if they could write the code, they would spend
24 hours a day just working on hardware drivers... why do morons waste their time with
stuff like this?
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By Speedy_B on 09.06.2007 - 18:06