![]() Over the weekend, Twitter user (who makes a habit of digging deep into old development versions of Windows) gave us a look at the earliest known version of Aero in a Longhorn development build from March of 2003, nearly four years before Vista would be released to the public. Windows Vista build 3790.1232 is one of the first builds of Windows Vista compiled after the development reset, and the first to be built by the new winmain build lab.It is essentially a recompile of a contemporary Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 build with the same number, and therefore not functionally a Longhorn build. One of Vista's most noticeable and memorable additions was the "Aero" design, which used Direct3D to draw translucent, glassy windows that could fade gracefully in and out of view, replacing the 2D windows from older Windows versions. Longhorn was supposed to include a filesystem to replace NTFS, something we still haven't gotten almost two decades later. Microsoft planned a huge list of new features for Longhorn (and its planned successor, codenamed Blackcomb), many of which never saw the light of day. ![]() If you're interested in the history of Windows, you probably know a bit about " Longhorn," Microsoft's internal codename for the OS update that would eventually become Windows Vista. ![]()
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