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Experience Longhorn – A look at a defining Microsoft project

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Re: Experience Longhorn – A look at a defining Microsoft project

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Post by ajdlinux »

unsignedqword wrote: post #8

Vista was not a very well-received release, but I remember using 64-bit Vista way back when. Maybe my memory is failing me a little, but I don't really recall Vista being that bad or unstable. UAC, of course, was a little annoying then, but 7 felt a little more unstable and crash-prone than Vista. My dad still uses a Vista desktop regularly (a 2007 install) and as far as I can tell it still works perfectly fine for h…

If my memory serves me correctly, a lot of the public outrage at the time was about poor drivers for some time after release?

Re: Experience Longhorn – A look at a defining Microsoft project

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Post by pedalpete »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #3

In case you ever wondered where the codename "Longhorn" came from, Windows XP was codenamed Whistler, and the follow-up version was codenamed Blackcomb, after the Whistler and Blackcomb mountains at the popular, eponymous Whistler Blackcomb ski resort in British Columbia a few hours away from Seattle. The Blackcomb release of Windows started slipping, so an interim release was planned. It was codenamed Longhorn, afte…

I'm from Whistler, and maybe it is just local legend, but we hear that the reason Whistler and Blackcomb were chosen is because so many Microsoft employees come up on weekends.

There are a LOT of local Whistler references in microsoft codenames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_codenames

Harmony, Symphony, Emerald, Springboard, Bobcat, Cougar in the NT family from what I can tell.

Re: Experience Longhorn – A look at a defining Microsoft project

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Post by ams6110 »

ajdlinux wrote: post #11
unsignedqword wrote: post #8

Vista was not a very well-received release, but I remember using 64-bit Vista way back when. Maybe my memory is failing me a little, but I don't really recall Vista being that bad or unstable. UAC, of course, was a little annoying then, but 7 felt a little more unstable and crash-prone than Vista. My dad still uses a Vista desktop regularly (a 2007 install) and as far as I can tell it still works perfectly fine for h…

If my memory serves me correctly, a lot of the public outrage at the time was about poor drivers for some time after release?

Also wasn't that the release that had endless popup warnings asking permission for arcane things. Anyone who used it became trained to just click "Allow" a dozen times just to get on with what they wanted to do.

Re: Experience Longhorn – A look at a defining Microsoft project

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Post by tedajax »

ajdlinux wrote: post #11
unsignedqword wrote: post #8

Vista was not a very well-received release, but I remember using 64-bit Vista way back when. Maybe my memory is failing me a little, but I don't really recall Vista being that bad or unstable. UAC, of course, was a little annoying then, but 7 felt a little more unstable and crash-prone than Vista. My dad still uses a Vista desktop regularly (a 2007 install) and as far as I can tell it still works perfectly fine for h…

If my memory serves me correctly, a lot of the public outrage at the time was about poor drivers for some time after release?

Lots of changes to things that broke a lot of existing applications and drivers and I don't know if it was software shops just dragging their feet or MS not giving them enough time to update their software but it was pretty messy for the first year or so.

Re: Experience Longhorn – A look at a defining Microsoft project

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Post by yuhong »

ams6110 wrote: post #15
ajdlinux wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If my memory serves me correctly, a lot of the public outrage at the time was about poor drivers for some time after release?

Also wasn't that the release that had endless popup warnings asking permission for arcane things. Anyone who used it became trained to just click "Allow" a dozen times just to get on with what they wanted to do.

OP already mentioned UAC.

Re: Experience Longhorn – A look at a defining Microsoft project

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

unsignedqword wrote: post #8

Vista was not a very well-received release, but I remember using 64-bit Vista way back when. Maybe my memory is failing me a little, but I don't really recall Vista being that bad or unstable. UAC, of course, was a little annoying then, but 7 felt a little more unstable and crash-prone than Vista. My dad still uses a Vista desktop regularly (a 2007 install) and as far as I can tell it still works perfectly fine for h…

Vista != Longhorn. Vista was a total do-over after it became clear that Longhorn was never going to ship.
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