Longhorn Lives!

[Garibaldi]

I just saw this on Digg - a company has taken Longhorn - the original successor to XP before Microsoft changed their mind and developed Vista - and has finished it and it is freely available to download:
Get Windows Longhorn

Has anyone here used Longhorn before? Is it worth trying out?

[yoda313]

I checked the links and tried downloading it - its a 780mb iso file that is a bittorrent link. It just kept going up and up in estimated time to like 25 days (mind you I'm a 300kb's slow dlsl network). I don't think anyone is seeding it.

Besides I have vista premium on my hp and xp on my emachine and a copy of a linux version I downloaded last year if I ever need an "emergency" os.

Does sound interesting though. Was the windows file system supposed to be more than just an improved search system that vista has?? Was it really supposed to supplant ntfs?

[JimboS]

I think both you guy's need to get a good nights sleep...
Microsoft's codename for VISTA was Longhorn...
It more than likely is some sort of scam...
Reminds me of the e-mail that promised if you forwarded it, you would receive $2k from Bill Gates............
Come on guys!!!!!!!!

[Dv8ted2]

I think both you guy's need to get a good nights sleep...
Microsoft's codename for VISTA was Longhorn...
It more than likely is some sort of scam...
Reminds me of the e-mail that promised if you forwarded it, you would receive $2k from Bill Gates............
Come on guys!!!!!!!!

Yep...

This is taking an OS that is in alpha status and injecting unsupported home brewed code into it. This is just asking for a cease and desist order from M$soft.

[mh2360]

This is taking an OS that is in alpha status and injecting unsupported home brewed code into it. This is just asking for a cease and desist order from M$soft.

Then there's the question of security. Would you trust this with your financial details? What about security updates etc?

[JohnnyMalaria]

Windows comes in two forms - the client version and the server version.

The client version of Longhorn became Vista.
The server version of Longhorn will become Windows Server 2008.

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3677886

The download in the opening post is nothing but piracy - and risky piracy at that.

[RichardZwicky]

right

Longhorn is code name of win server now

[AlanHK]

If it is what it says:

1) it's an early Alpha version, full of bugs and dead slow.

2) it's just as illegal as any other version of Windows you can "freely" download.

[bevills1]

Surely there'd be no MS updates or support for it even if it works and even if legal making it pure junk IMO. Also there are enough lack of drivers, compatibility, etc. problems with Vista. Why would anybody want to invite even more problems with unsupported alpha version of any software?

[Ai Haibara]

Noticed this article this afternoon on BetaNews:

http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Squashes_Longhorn_OS_Project/1182539927

A group of Windows enthusiasts that wanted to attempt to bring back features cut out of Vista through a modified version of Longhorn code circa 2004 found out Microsoft didn't take too kindly to it.

Developers from Joejoe.org, the group that started the "Longhorn Reloaded" project, said the Redmond company had sent them a cease and desist letter demanding they kill the project.

"cr1t1cal," the system administrator for the site, said that the notice came after builds of Milestone 1 first appeared on torrent sites and the group's FTP server. He also claimed Microsoft had known about the project "for many months."

"I am just as sorry as you guys are about this, but we got to think about the community as a whole first," he wrote in a message on the Longhorn Reloaded Web site.

Longhorn Reloaded was meant to add back in to the features that Microsoft had taken out of the project in order to speed its eventual release, such as WinFS. It was based on Longhorn build 4074, released to developers at the 2004 WinHEC conference.

Noted Microsoft pundit Mary Jo Foley talked to the group behind the project back in late May when Milestone 1 was first released. She asked one of the lead developers, Jean-Marie Houvenaghel, if they had heard anything from Microsoft's legal teams.

"We haven't currently suffered any threats from Microsoft, maybe because Longhorn is considered abandonware, I don't know," he told Foley "Also I'm [not] 100% sure that they are aware of the LHR situation."

[jagabo]

As expected, Microsoft shut them down:

http://www.joejoe.org/forum/index.php?act=SR&f=84

It is with sad news that I have to inform you that today due to a cesit and decist letter we recived from microsoft we are no longer able to provide you with a download link to longhorn reloaded

[ofbarea]

I hope these guys direct their efforts in supporting React Operating System