Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 25th May 2007 16:59 UTC, submitted by Raymond Preston
Seven months after announcing plans to take up where Microsoft left off with its Windows Longhorn client development, a group of members of the Joejoe.org site have built a working prototype of what they're calling 'Longhorn Reloaded'. Earlier this week, the Longhorn Reloaded developers and testers posted for download Milestone 1 of Longhorn Reloaded. "Longhorn Reloaded is a Project dedicated to the revival of the Operating System known as Code Name 'Longhorn'. To put the projects aims simply, we aim to finish off what Microsoft started before the operating system was canceled. It is a modification of Windows 6.0.4074, which was originally released during the 2004 Windows Hardware Engineers Conference," explained the Longhorn Reloaded team on the Joejoe Web site.
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While I am a fan of revival projects, this project is on too shaky legal ground for me... It'd be easier to add on the features they're seeking to an already-extant OS.
I'm wondering if SkyOS's BranchFS is doing now what WinFS would have been doing now if they hadn't cancelled it...