![]() ![]() Also the templates in the My Documents and My Pictures were notably different as well as the Open and Save as dialog boxes also included the template, incorporating aesthetic changes and a few new user interface options. One of the notable changes was that the Windows logo was only white, not colored like all the versions of Windows before it. Visually it was not significantly different from Windows XP. This build was the first of several that had a working title of ' Longhorn XP Professional'. Milestone 2 īuild 3683 (build date of September 23, 2002) was leaked on October 20, 2002, and was the first Longhorn build leaked to the Internet. Some builds (such as Beta 1 and Beta 2) only display the build label in the version information dialog (Winver), and the icons are from Windows XP.When installing the milestone 2 builds, the OOBE (the setup process) is the same as Windows XP, but with different music. The lab in which any given build originated is shown as part of the build label, and the date and time of the build follows that. At Microsoft, a number of 'Build labs' exist where the compilation of the entirety of Windows can be performed by a team. Typically, a team working on a certain feature or subsystem would generate their own working builds which developers would test with, and when the code was deemed stable, all the changes would be incorporated back into the main development tree at once. Higher build numbers didn't automatically mean that the latest features from every development team at Microsoft was included. A typical build label would look like 'Longhorn Build 3663.Lab06_N.020728-1728'. Most builds of Longhorn and Vista were identified by a label that was always displayed in the bottom-right corner of the desktop. Once envisioned as a minor upgrade to Windows XP, Windows 'Longhorn' took on all-new importance in early 2002 when Microsoft decided to reach for the brass ring and make this upcoming Windows release an all-encompassing major upgrade with a new security architecture called Palladium, a hardware 3D-enabled user interface, and many more exciting new features. If you're familiar with the Longhorn 4000-series setup procedure (see my Windows Longhorn Build 4074 Gallery 1 for details), Longhorn build 5048 holds no surprises, and still offers none of the amazing corporate deployment tools I first wrote about two long years ago. ![]() Microsoft originally expected to ship the new version sometime late in 2003 as a minor step between Windows XP (codenamed 'Whistler') and Windows 7 (codenamed 'Blackcomb' and 'Vienna'). Development of Windows Vista occurred over the span of five and a half years, starting in earnest in May 2001, prior to the release of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, and continuing until November 2006. ![]()
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