The Best Operating System Microsoft Never Released (Longhorn Overview)

[@benny21293]

One important fact about Longhorn is that sadly there where a LOT of great ideas and concepts, some of wich are still not real today. But the actual Longhorn OS was nowhere near being functional, especially when it comes to all the great ideas they had.

[@PocketPixelYT]

Yeah, especially compared to the demos they showed, with the never released features and the awesome animations. I mean something as simple as a seamless transition from the boot screen to the login, surely that can be done with UEFI, but it's one of those things that hasn't ever been implemented, and that's just one of the many features

[@burakdemirh]

I remember being 9 year old, installing vista for the first time. It felt like I was using an OS you see on movies, the futuristic ones.

[@ranchocommodorereef]

That was the fun feeling of it.

[@Juliodax]

Excellent

[@csch92]

If i would install it today, i would feel the same way. Win 11 is great but it still needs fine tuning here and there. Vista was ahead of its time

[@Pedro8k]

I always thought Longhorn was the project codename for Windows 7 even this looks better than 11

[@RexTorres]

I was so excited about Longhorn when I first heard about it. There were so many new concepts and it looked so cool.

[@thegarlicbread4422]

To be honest, Longhorn has my favorite aesthetic design out of any Windows OS. It has in my opinion, the right balance between skeumorphism and minimalism, with a nicely subdued color palette. It's like if you took all the design elements I like from XP, Vista, and Win10.

[@Juliodax]

Whats about the animations in the windows, like these of Apple?. In this case, I read, compiz used in GNU+Linux was the young people designers fired from Microsoft when the development of Longhorn?

[@Robsters85]

vista and 7 still look better than 10/11 today...windows 10 so bland :/

[@circleinforthecube5170]

Don't look at 2020s interior design if you don't like bland, shits win10 irl

[@matthew8077]

Great video, subscribed!

[@LilCurlyBlonde]

Love it's look

[@RWL2012]

its

[@theraider1268]

@@RWL2012shut up

[@windows97gaming66]

longhorn is beta version of vista duh

[@lexiyuri]

And is better than vista

[@Quailstorm]

pre-reset Longhorn isn't, it is a branch that just died out when Vista was rebased on Server 2003 x64 code

[@Gui2226]

A time when reporting opinion to MS would really ve relevant to users

[@Gui2226]

*could be. Could also be real a situation when MS actually cared about users. Now feels like nothing they do makes any sense.

[@chuuisinsane]

CLOUDS ‼🔊🗣

[@LX.Bissnuss-be2fn]

100 likes!

[@easybtw]

How risky would it be to take this OS online and use it as a daily driver?

[@PocketPixelYT]

About as risky as XP, most likely. That's if you can even get it to stay online long enough before it crashes

[@jonisin5498]

windows 11 is so fugly compared with that. bring back aero glass !!!

[@lexiyuri]

Longhorn>>>.vista

[@Galaxy.Windows]

the best part was that its based on Windows XP making Longhorn the succesor to XP

[@Taras-Nabad]

Vista was the slowest running operating system. Also per Dave Cutler Longhorn was the worst code ever written.

[@PocketPixelYT]

Yeah nice of Dave to chime in about behind the scenes of Longhorn. It helps to corroborate the reason why Longhorn started from scratch, and on the server codebase.