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An early 2003 concept video showing the original user interface vision for Windows Longhorn before it became Windows Vista.

a video of an early longhorn concept from 2003.( vista does not look like this) please visit ravenunderground.net

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What people say. Engineers share this to compare Microsoft's ambitious early design concepts for Longhorn with the final Windows Vista release.

kompakton Hacker News • Recommends

On “Unofficial Windows XP SP4”

Longhorn concept was awesome. I remember how crazy and advanced this Longhorn promo was link to this video >Sadly, we all know how Vista turned out at the end. Maybe with the first versions, but after a few service packs it was really usable. Hell, Windows 7 was referred to as "Windows Vista SP3" :) But I do agree that Vista wasn't as Longhorn. I think they realized it was too demanding and too advanced so they decided to milk the concept ideas for later versions.
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rbanffyon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Courier - Microsoft's Secret Tablet?”

As a nice example, compare this ( link to this video ) to what shipped as Vista. And with Courier they are not even pretending it's a real shippable product.
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zokieron Hacker News • Mentions

On “TagSpaces – Open-source personal data manager”

I'm too young for Cairo, but I do remember Longhorn and WinFS, and indeed the marketing and ideas of those have shaped my view of what the systems could/should be today. Didn't BeOS also have some sort of object-database-filesystem-thingy? I remember some chatter about that, but didn't actually catch any first-hand experience at the time. edit: Longhorn concept video: link to this video
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