[Burned Phoenix]

Microsoft has finally put a stop to the "Longhorn Reloaded" project, an effort to continue development of an early version of Windows "Longhorn," the precursor of Windows Vista.

The programmers wanted to keep working with an early version of Longhorn, which still had features, such as WinFS, that were later cut. Of course, despite some moves to get along with the open source world, Microsoft hasn't exactly decided to make its crown jewel (even test versions of it) free for the world to modify.

Nonetheless, the group behind Longhorn Reloaded expressed dismay at Redmond's move, saying in a recent posting that it had received a cease and decist letter from Microsoft.

"It deeply saddens me that although Microsoft have known about this project for many months they only issued us with this notice a few days after we started to distribute the iso via torrents and ftp server," the project's senior administrator said in the posting, adding that any links to the code or requests for a download link posted on the site would be deleted.

Via Cnet

[punkrockerz]

Burned Phoenix, on Jun 22 2007, 07:07 PM, said:

Microsoft has finally put a stop to the "Longhorn Reloaded" project, an effort to continue development of an early version of Windows "Longhorn," the precursor of Windows Vista.

The programmers wanted to keep working with an early version of Longhorn, which still had features, such as WinFS, that were later cut. Of course, despite some moves to get along with the open source world, Microsoft hasn't exactly decided to make its crown jewel (even test versions of it) free for the world to modify.

Nonetheless, the group behind Longhorn Reloaded expressed dismay at Redmond's move, saying in a recent posting that it had received a cease and decist letter from Microsoft.

"It deeply saddens me that although Microsoft have known about this project for many months they only issued us with this notice a few days after we started to distribute the iso via torrents and ftp server," the project's senior administrator said in the posting, adding that any links to the code or requests for a download link posted on the site would be deleted.

Via Cnet

GRR i thought LH Reloaded was a good idea too

[timbertide]

You can use these longhorn based visual styles for Vista:
Aero 4074 Remix
HilledSE 1.1

[Villain]

Told you that they were going to do something to stop it. MS's Code... they can do it if they want to.

[ShamusHand]

I hate to say, but they had it coming...

I personally tried it under Virtual PC 2007, it was very buggy. Constant crashes, very slow to boot open a program. Some processes that should be hidden appeared as command prompts (Sbctl.exe), and Explorer had to be started manually on boot. Crashed when I opened control panel or even the sidebar. It was never an official Operating System, it was really just a toy. Would have been cool if it ever reached full potential though...

Just to give an example, Ubuntu and openSUSE run better under VPC.

This post has been edited by ShamusHand: 23 June 2007 - 12:40 AM

[idawn]

ShamusHand, on Jun 23 2007, 12:39 AM, said:

I hate to say, but they had it coming...

I personally tried it under Virtual PC 2007, it was very buggy. Constant crashes, very slow to boot open a program. Some processes that should be hidden appeared as command prompts (Sbctl.exe), and Explorer had to be started manually on boot. Crashed when I opened control panel or even the sidebar. It was never an official Operating System, it was really just a toy. Would have been cool if it ever reached full potential though...

Yeah on Virtual PC it did trouble me lot but on native install it did fine And worked well but got crashed my audio hardware everything else was ok to some extent atleast...!

And as for m$ they were going to stop it anytime n they did now as expected ..!

This post has been edited by idawn: 23 June 2007 - 02:44 AM

[Dr. Doom]

LHR sucks, but speaking of VPC... is there a way to add USB support?
I have a old scanner and there are no drivers for it. It have only drivers for Win95 & WinNT, now I want to see if it still works, but I can't install it, only on Win95, but VPC doesn't have USB support so... SHIT!

[Razor VinT]

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Microsoft doesn't want Longhorn Reloaded

Neither me. It was buggy as hell. I'd instead prefer a stable Longhorn transformation pack for Vista.

[Zeblade]

lol gee and to think .. a beta being buggy. Oh and I'm sure they just stopped working on it because MS said so? LMAO...

[Silare Alvreon]

That wasn't cool to stop it AFTER they finished...

Shoulda' just stopped it before they put so much work into it, really...

This post has been edited by Silare Alvreon: 02 August 2007 - 09:43 PM

[Soduka]

Chickens. I would have stuck with it and even if M$ ACTUALLY followed through on these bogus threats, it would have been worth it to see them waste tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.