Fans ressurect Longhorn

Tuesday, May. 29 2007 | Author: Griffith

Although I sometimes say to myself that Microsoft fans aren’t as passionate towards the company, as the fans of Apple and Nintendo are, I have never seen a project of such weight and importance take shape for any of them before.

A group of people who were unhappy with Microsoft’s decision to scrap the WinFS filesystem, and take Longhorn to the path that Vista took, have decided to take the build 6.0.4074 of Windows, and update it under the name of Longhorn Reloaded.

Although Microsoft hasn’t responded to this project officially but my guess is that will change soon enough. Altering code and re-distributing Longhorn in this way is clearly against the terms of service. I would like to say that Microsoft might have a change of heart, but their past actions have already fooled me a couple of times, so I’ll refrain from keeping my hopes up this time.

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2 Responses for "Fans ressurect Longhorn"

J44xm

May 30th, 2007 at 4:31 am
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Didn’t see that coming. But wouldn’t it be a fairly incomplete OS? I suppose it’s usable, but I wonder to what extent.
Griffith

May 30th, 2007 at 10:18 am
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I haven’t really tried it, but I did try Longhorn back in “those days”, and, in terms of usability, or functionality, there really wasn’t anything I thought that the Operative System needed to make it feel more complete.

And in all honesty, most of the advances from the stage that Longhorn was in, were basically in the re-arranging some menus, and redesigning the interface by making it worse, in some aspects, compared to XP. Those jokes about Vista being a Windows XP with a fancy skin didn’t come from nowhere. Since Microsoft ditched WinFS, that’s pretty much what Vista became.

It doesn’t feel better, it just feels different. But at least now Windows looks as fragile as it is (it looks like it’s made out of glass).