news.softpedia.com— It lives! Windows Longhorn has been resurrected and is available for download. FREE! The serial required is: TCP8W-T8PQJ-WWRRH-QH76C-99FBW. WinFS has been restored!!!!
May 27, 2007View in Crawl 4
wow lots of n00bs. my friend beta tested longhorn/vista (it was still longhorn then) and this is not longhorn. longhorn had a 3D desktop. this dosen't. this is a skin. i cant believe this many people would fall for this... you would think the need for a windows xp disk would be a dead give away...
It can't believe this assh**e is getting dugg up like he really has a point.Your 3 reasons can be answered with one argument. This is a homebre/hoby project (if you want to call it project). Number 1 might be a valid reason; drivers. But hell, I'm really positive that anyone willing to download and try LR out certainly will not give a s**t about servicing or support (number 2). And tha fact that it is illegal(3) is not reason for it to fail. Hell, half of what we do on the internet is illegal anyways.I give you that this thing is just overhyped. It should be considered as what it is; just a bunch of people doing something because they simply can.f**king ms fanboys in denial. Vista might have some great features added, but it wasn't the big change we were all expecting. Screw the "Wow!". I'm a Vista user myself.
This is useless and silly for many reasons. Let's see...I have a version of Longhorn, too, but it's much newer. It's called Vista. Oh, and Longhorn Server is still under development (Server 2008).As a novelty item from the history pages of Windows, it's maybe a tiny bit interesting to have an old build of Windows with a few features may have changed/scrapped. It's fun to see where the project was headed at a certain point in time.But their stated goal is "to finish off what Microsoft started before the operating system was canceled."However, THEY DONT HAVE ANY SOURCE CODE. (and if they did MS legal would be pretty unhappy) They're not going to change anything except some graphics without the source. They're not going to be "developing a branch" of Longhorn. They might be changing some registry entries and adding drivers on disc, but who knows, they might also be adding a trojan to the OS.This is the typical blogosphere/diggnation reaction to this "project" from a few high schoolers.
Checked it out, but it's REALLY broken in places. DON'T USE IT as your main OS. It's a novelty.Oh, and to the numerous idiots above,THIS LONGHORN != VISTA "LONGHORN"The original "Longhorn" [with WinFS and other assorted goodies] was scrapped in 2004 and they started fresh. The new "Longhorn" that came out of that was what became Vista. <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#Development">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#Development</a>Also, this is completely legal. The EULA for alpha/beta copies of Windows allows for free redistibution and modification of it.
theowningoneMay 29, 2007
wow lots of n00bs. my friend beta tested longhorn/vista (it was still longhorn then) and this is not longhorn. longhorn had a 3D desktop. this dosen't. this is a skin. i cant believe this many people would fall for this... you would think the need for a windows xp disk would be a dead give away...
Closed AccountMay 29, 2007
It can't believe this assh**e is getting dugg up like he really has a point.Your 3 reasons can be answered with one argument. This is a homebre/hoby project (if you want to call it project). Number 1 might be a valid reason; drivers. But hell, I'm really positive that anyone willing to download and try LR out certainly will not give a s**t about servicing or support (number 2). And tha fact that it is illegal(3) is not reason for it to fail. Hell, half of what we do on the internet is illegal anyways.I give you that this thing is just overhyped. It should be considered as what it is; just a bunch of people doing something because they simply can.f**king ms fanboys in denial. Vista might have some great features added, but it wasn't the big change we were all expecting. Screw the "Wow!". I'm a Vista user myself.
Closed AccountMay 29, 2007
OMG illegal!!Grow some pubes.
prebeckMay 29, 2007
As of 6pm central, the site was pulled. Just in case anybody is curious.
ejdmooMay 30, 2007
This is useless and silly for many reasons. Let's see...I have a version of Longhorn, too, but it's much newer. It's called Vista. Oh, and Longhorn Server is still under development (Server 2008).As a novelty item from the history pages of Windows, it's maybe a tiny bit interesting to have an old build of Windows with a few features may have changed/scrapped. It's fun to see where the project was headed at a certain point in time.But their stated goal is "to finish off what Microsoft started before the operating system was canceled."However, THEY DONT HAVE ANY SOURCE CODE. (and if they did MS legal would be pretty unhappy) They're not going to change anything except some graphics without the source. They're not going to be "developing a branch" of Longhorn. They might be changing some registry entries and adding drivers on disc, but who knows, they might also be adding a trojan to the OS.This is the typical blogosphere/diggnation reaction to this "project" from a few high schoolers.
djbon2112May 31, 2007
Checked it out, but it's REALLY broken in places. DON'T USE IT as your main OS. It's a novelty.Oh, and to the numerous idiots above,THIS LONGHORN != VISTA "LONGHORN"The original "Longhorn" [with WinFS and other assorted goodies] was scrapped in 2004 and they started fresh. The new "Longhorn" that came out of that was what became Vista. <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#Development">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#Development</a>Also, this is completely legal. The EULA for alpha/beta copies of Windows allows for free redistibution and modification of it.
litlpunkJun 3, 2007
how come this won't work? bittorrent won't download it becausee there's no peers it says
litlpunkJun 3, 2007
i couldn't get any of the download links to work for ytorrent or bittorrent. i want this! someone help!
iamdexterAug 20, 2007
That's nice, I hope its better than f**king Vista.<a class="user" href="http://www.clarksshoes.us">http://www.clarksshoes.us</a>
propellantMay 29, 2011
See windows next step UNIX!
propellantMay 29, 2011
See windows next step UNIX!
MikaelFOct 8, 2011
This is Microsoft's best OS Windows 8. Hope they can handle all their requests in this system.