I beta tested Longhorn. It's Windows Vista. Mystery solved.

Everyone here is arguing about something, I'm just here for the start up/shut down sounds. They were the best IMO.

I edited this comment so the replies mak- jk 1.01: Interface Manager 95: Chicago 98: Memphis 2000: Janus XP: Whistler *Vista: Longhorn* 7: Blackcomb 8: Jupiter 8.1: Blue 10: Threshold

I tried "early" Longhorn builds (like 4051), they were really amazing compared to XP and final Vista builds...

You forgot the totally forgettable Windows ME (Millenium Edition).

Windows Longhorn was ahead of its time

This version of Windows can be called "Vista Blueprint".

Everyone : Windows Longhorn is the most forgotten programming software! Windows Neptune : *Am I a joke to you*

Gone, but also forgotten

You forgot windows ME

Funny thing, I found my really old pc in my basement, and decided to check if it still works, and it did. And I was even more surprised to see it booting into one of those longhorn dev builds. No idea how or why I installed it back when I was like 12 yo, but I did. Good times.

Windows Longhorn: *Hey, you are finally awake*

What is your favorite Windows Feature? Me : Blue Screen 😂

"No coherent vision between the teams" AKA the situation going on with Window 10's UI design teams

Just remember, Without vista/longhorn, Windows 7 might have been a failure due to it being too different

1:11 little did he know on October 5, 2021 there would be a WINDOWS 11.

I knew of Longhorn, but I never heard of a Windows 7 launch party... ..who at Microsoft thought that was a cool idea?

Where's Windows Me? Longhorn was code name for Windows Vista.

Can we take a moment to realize that the sounds that were in Longhorn were amazing. It sounded almost heavenly, especially the startup, shutdown, logon, and log off.

“You ever heard of the tragedy of windows longhorn?” “No” “Thought so it’s an old story Microsoft wouldn’t tell you

This immediately made me think “Texas?? 😂😂”

I remember my grandson telling me about Longhorn years ago.

I only watched this because I knew what Longhorn was.

I hear that people of the future still remember longhorn

You forgot to mention the train wreck that was Windows ME, released between 2000 and XP. It was so bad, so buggy and so hated by customers, that 18 months after it's release they pulled it from store shelves, stopped shipping it with new PCs, stopped all support for it and literally buried it. Microsoft now acts like it never happened lol.

Windows Vista is Longhorn. Yes you can say that. Just because they changed the base doesn't mean that Longhorn is a lost version.

I remember I used windows longhorn, it was just ahead of its time, you needed a really powerful CPU with 1MB cache to use it well.

Longhorn: two good points on either end and a lot of Bull in between.

Longhorn IS Vista! Longhorn was in development for some years, but they scraped it and build it on NT base instead of XP like they did before. With that the development time was doubled.

I was in the industry from back before Win95 even launched. Rumors about Longhorn were echoing through the industry before Win98 was even released. As for launch parties, the Win95 launch (at Midnight) was really wild. Microsoft used to send me the new software (for free) ahead of the release. Win95 was shipped on 13 or 14 floppies. Fun times.

Beetween Windows XP and Windows Vista is Windows Longhorn! But Longhorn is Vista!

Yes. I’ve heard of this before. Um, I’ve heard of it in the Windows XP Control Center. The Longhorn theme setting.

when i clicked blue screen in the youtube poll it changed to 66% from 0%...

Windows 7 still my favorite.

Love your videos. Apart from being informative etc. the best thing is the way you get right down to the matter in hand and continue thru the vid at a steady but comfortable pace. I can't stand those KZfaqrs who waffle on endlessly about crap you don't want or need to know about before even starting on what the vid is really about. Thanks.

Nearly 4 years later and now we got Windows 11 with a not so awful not so good start

When you are too lazy to pirate Windows 7 Ultimate... Time to plan a birthday party for my cat!

What about Shorthorn?

Longhorn is the codename of Windows Vista. *What year, that Windows Vista was reached RTM?* A) 2007 B) 2005 C) 2006

I'm one of few. I LOVE Windows Vista. I still use it for fun because I love it so much. The Aero design, Purble Place, the outdated network options: all of it. I really just love using the weird, forgotten Windows that I remember so fondly from my childhood. Also, the basic Vista backgrounds are gorgeous. I honestly almost bought a pair of socks with them on it.

in your timeline you missed out Windows Millennium Edition released in 2000 I think

You forgot Windows ME! The best, most successful version of Windows ever made!

Windows 7: Uhh You Forgot My 2nd Codename From The Beginning (Vienna)

Thank for this I was researching about windows longhorn

You skipped over Windows ME in 1999

Also, Windows 7 was also named Windows Vienna.

I heard of Longhorn way back in 2002. The main problem with Longhorn was that it tried to do to much and the UI was to resources intensive for the hardware of the time. For example, it was supposed to support multi touch touch screens allowing for several peoples to manipulate things on the screen at the same time on a coffee table styled monitor setup. The manipulations that I saw where : move, rotate and resize of images and whole windows from applications, by FOUR peoples at the same time.

I liked Windows 7 . I got gifted a computer with it on. One thing I liked was that if Window 7 got corrupt you could get a DVD to do a complete wipe and reload. I noticed in Windows 10 that we lost the libraries.

I remmeber Windows Longhorn, I got a neat chance to test some of the builds of it, it was somewhere in 3000's. I remember being given this CD in a plain white envelope and I remember the installation looking absolutely amazing and being blown away (Compared to the XP installation) but I also remember it taking AGES to install, it was terrible, it took like an hour to install or more and I remember thinking "This is super pretty but obviously this pretty installer isn't going to work" I remember getting new builds as they came out and they were all very slow, sluggish, the installer was insanely slow. Then I remember when the public betas started coming out and things were vastly improved on performance. ---- So yea I remember it but the only thing that comes to mind was legit no kidding "Oh yea that system that takes ages and ages to install" ---- I always try to use some new beta or early beta system as my default system cause it's edgy as all get out but there was just no way with longhorn, I ran back to Windows XP lol

I seem to remember that Windows XP service pack 2 was released basically as a new OS because they were not ready with Longhorn / Vista. If they had got Longhorn out, there may not have been a Service Pack 2 for XP at all, or it would have just been a round-up of patches as you would normally expect.

Correction: Longhorn was a set of buggy beta releases of Windows. They were very in-dev, and their result was Vista.

Fun fact: the startup of windows longhorn is a cow mooing! 🐮💻

I've heard of it, there were also several betas of windows with codenames

I installed Longhorn once in the time when everyone used XP and actually thought it's a skin, and never even thought it's developed by Microsoft. I genuinely thought it's some random dude's work, with some nice tricks but that's it.I used xp up until 7 released. And still there are not many drawbacks to use 7 even at this date. Only DX12 is what 7 lacks.

the movable taskbar feature returned in windows 10. but it's different on how you do it. it's usable in settings application>personalization>taskbar and then you'll see the option "Taskbar location on screen." and you can change it from bottom to: top, left, or right.

Windows XP had such a long lifecycle, a new version wasn't really needed until Win 7, after which you would still find XP running on many computers.

You missed out Windows Me.

Yes, exactly Longhorn was tha first Windows where they used "Aero" i love it till today :3 (i´m using Win 7 :D Win 10 is crap for me)

*Windows Longhorn* Release date - Nov 7, 2003 Windows Longhorn was a scrapped version originally of Vista, the version similar to Win7. Originally, the layout was similar to XP, the version before Vista. Project Scrapped - Jan 4, 2005 Builds created from _Windows Longhorn_ (including scrapped updates) - 24 Users of _Windows Longhorn_ - 17 (unpopular)

The design team of longhorn seems to be in charge of windows10 UI as well carrying on the inconsistency of it.

You forgot Windows CE And Me :)

my favorite feature of vista is blue screening when I try to launch solitaire!

Whenever i hear the word: "longhorn" i think it is like a scary horror word or something 😂

There are a bunch of Vista\Longhorn features that where only in Vista that I would have liked to see in 7 and 10, je side bar, the optional UI animations and stuff.

The name “longhorn” makes it sound gamery

I was 9 years old when my dad, a Microsoft employee, got Longhorn. I don't remember what version of it he had, but it was the same year he got his truck, 2004. From what I remember using that version of Longhorn vs when we upgraded the family OS to Vista, it seemed the opposite. Longhorn seemed like the refined version of Vista. The simplicity of XP, the tech of Vista, and not half as many of the problems of Vista.

I got a free copy on Windows Vista Ultimate, a few days before it launched. I beta tested Vista sense it started, and a lot of the feedback I gave ended up in the final product. I wish more would have made it in. But it is what it is. I still love Vista, to me Vista is still the best looking version of Windows.

I actually used a few Longhorn builds and it was like Windows 9 with the clock being shown. I remember seeing a video where seeing a Windows OS like Windows 10 showing stuff Longhorn had and it was called Windows 9.

5:02 i happen to have blue hills without knowing as my desktop wallpapre

I’ve heard of windows longhorn It’s actually my fav pc even though it wasn’t released

That bar between that whistler and black comb I visited

Windows Longhorn was the pre-release codename for Windows Vista and was the successor to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (built from NT 5.2 codebase). Development on the OS started in May 2001 and went through two unique development cycles separated by a development reset in 2004. ( I was so much surprised how this guy fakes everything)

I was a longhorn insider during the time

1:51 Microsoft: Released a New operating system called "Windows Sever 2003" ThioJoe:Don't care about Server 2003

Now I know where I got my copy of Windows 7

I got Windows 7 with an Action Pack Subscription. I still have most of that software on Discs. When I renewed my subscription, they had started charging $100 more for the discs and everything was available through a download site. I renewed one more time right before Windows 8 came out, but only got the Windows 8 demo and it screwed up my netbook hdd. After that, I found better ways to spend $300 a year. :) It is a great way to help you stay current with new versions of software if you work in Help Desk. I got to play around with Communications Server and some other goodies.

Windows Longhorn is basically Windows Vista, Longhorn is the codename of Vista.

Longhorn just a codename for win vista . because longhorn beginning project in 2004 . and longhorn has scrapped they replace windows vista beta it really soon become windows vista 2006 i think! it just couple of test operating system

The windows 7 parties are the strangest but also the most awesome things out there

1:25 Hello, soeaking from the future here. Turns out, they're making a Windows 11. Not surprised

Back in the day when I bought a laptop with Windows 8 on it, I just reformatted the hard drive and put Ubuntu on. Cause I just thought Windows 8 was unusable. I think every release after XP till Windows 10 was terrible, 10 is a good and stable operating system, but if they would also have versions of Adobe software for Linux I wouldn't need Windows at all.

I've heard of it. Maybe he's *trying* to to forget Windows ME. Do I get points for my (non)-original comment?

Just opened this video and just to say. Windows Longhorn is the first version of Windows Vista launched in 2004. Longhorn is Vista's codename.

I remember sitting at my desk anxiously waiting on the release of windows Longhorn.

I downloaded longhorn on my old XP pc (my first one) i also swapped the hard drive too and it runs more smooth than xp

*windows shorthorn has left the chat...*

The taskbar being able to move around left, top right or bottom has been around since Win 95.

In year 2000 there's also windows me (milenium edition) nice vid dho!

I use the sounds from it on Windows 10. Cause it sounds pretty cool

I usually like your videos. Until now. Windows Longhorn was the "in-development" or "beta" code name for what we know as Vista. But as you mentioned, the technology was not yet available, and this is why the gap between XP and Vista was so large.

I already knew longhorn exist it was just the beta for windows vista cuz I beta tested longhorn and it had that lovely opening sound

I remember the news about longhorn back when i had dial up lol.

Your video made my computer unstable!!!

Valid in India, yes?

Yes, I remember a friend of mine used to run prerelease builds of Longhorn (and Whistler/XP as well before that was released) back in the early 2000s. I always assumed that Longhorn was what ended up being released as Windows Vista. And frankly, after watching this, that's still what it seems like to me.

I also beta tested Longhorn. It is NOT Vista. Longhorn was scrapped and approximately 5% of the assets were recycled and used in Vista, an entirely different infrastructure and OS. There were dark builds of Longhorn that not many got use, which included an interesting metadata file system that was overlayed on top of a regular file system, most of you knew this as WinFS (not a real file system, again, just a metadata overlay). This was useful in a new type of explorer that was being developed (and never came into fruition). We were gonna get a LOT of eye candy including true and absolute vector graphics desktop (mildly implemented in later versions of windows, but not to the extent that Longhorn was planning). WindowFX, not the 3rd party toy that we eventually got in Vista, but one that was native and developed by MS itself was also part of the eye candy. This included windows that contorted or stretched when shaken while holding the mouse down on them. You could also flip the window over to write notes down (something demonstrated by Sun Microsystems' own Project Looking Glass). This was an OS to behold, but I think consumer hardware simply couldn't handle most of this. Most of us were still using Radeon 9500s well into 2003, you just didn't have a real reason to upgrade since most games at the time ran fine on a Radeon 9200 even. These weren't powerful enough to run the fancy graphics.

So Longhorn was the code name for Vista before it was released. I thought everyone knew that but he apparently missed the memo.

1:16 windows Siarer 2019?

I noticed you started your Windows timeline with Windows 95... I'm clearly much older because my first one was Windows 2, running on a 12MHz Compaq 286 desktop :)

Fact, in Windows XP there is a wallpaper which has Windows Longhorn written on it.