Longhorn @ WinHEC 2003

This video shows Longhorn 4015 lab06 at WinHEC 2003 conference. No build with those cool effects were ever leaked (even 4015 main lab hasn't them).

Build tag: 4015.lab06_n.030403-1706

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Microsoft
• Windows
• Vista
• Codename
• Longhorn
• build
• 4015
• lab06
• proto
• prototype

[fysnake]

the prove that windows vista is not a copy of mac os! :)

[FiFi5000]

well... it's hard to explain but Longhorn (up to build 4094) and Vista (builds 5000-6000) are in fact different things xD

[TheTutorial]

RIP OFF. THIS IS BERYL

[FiFi5000]

TheTutorial, it was before Beryl...

[olfrygt2007]

2003... This is the evidence, that XGL effects are not completely from the Linux Community.

[NotASocialCommentary]

I love that this predates Compiz. Suck it, Linux Youths.

[POKEMONMASTER260]

@TwiIightSparkle Actually, Longhorn was even buggier than Vista. It's the fact that it had stuff Vista didn't, (like this,) that makes it so worthwhile.

[Viriatus]

@Goldspar1 because they realized it was a bad idea. It may look cool at the first 5 minutes. Then is very annoying.

[Ptero4]

@Goldspar1 (continues). After that the group of designers and coders who got fired went and took on different parts of the Linux GUI (they did this as a retaliation against M$), with the one who coded the wobbly windows effect becoming part of the group of people who built the original compiz compositor (that 's before compiz quinn and beryl).

[Ptero4]

@Goldspar1 The reason is that the effects you see there were built by a very small group of newly hired designers/developpers without the knowledge or consent of Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer. When that build was shown @ winhec 2k3 Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer went batshit (they hate bling and believe that a good GUI is one that is as ugly, plain, dull and boring as possible) and fired the people who built it, then they scrapped the whole thing (that's why the Longhorn -> Vista reboot happened).

[Goldspar1]

...Why didn't they put this in vista?!?!

[halokoma]

That windows rotate is cute before end :D

[TwiIightSparkle]

@fysnake Longhorn was an alpha and still looked like XP.

Vista was even buggier than Longhorn.

[TwiIightSparkle]

@NotASocialCommentary Compiz is way different to DCE. DCE only makes it more computer-effective to make desktop effects, Compiz allows desktop effects in Linux.

Windows and Mac fanboys - they make me lol.

[anidev96]

@NotASocialCommentary I've installed a Linux system with Xorg and gone through a system update at least 4 times, and all the effects have worked amazing. They even have wobbly windows, which never did make it into Vista. And it takes under 10% cpu almost all the time.

[anidev96]

@NitroGadvRules Unfortunately, the API (as far as I could see) isn't there. i.e., third-party programs can't access the composited images/textures of the windows, or control the decorations (titlebar). They even say on MSDN that the API does not allow the creation of something like Flip3D.