Wow, that’s a cool story! Thanks for sharing it! I had no clue there was even a beta test group back then. Was that outside of Microsoft?
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floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I was actually part of the beta test group for Windows Nashville. It was an improvement over Windows 95, but Windows 98 really brought home a lot of good UI design improvements.
macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
No, I actually worked for Microsoft. It was a sort of contract gig for bug hunters, especially if you were able to fix the code at all. Otherwise, you just had access to download it from Microsoft servers and submit feedback.
cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Oh, the name Longhorn unlocked some memories just now…
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 2 months ago
Windows Vista is Microsoft’s greatest success, because it’s main purpose was to make people forget the promises made for Longhorn.
tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I do kinda wish we had gotten WinFS. All the “ideas” of it seemed cool, just impossible to implement without breaking every existing application.
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
FS?
As in “F’ing Shit”?
megabyteX@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Future Storage aka WinFS. It was a cool idea, metadata based relational db file system. But the execution was horrible, SQL Server based file system which was exposed via .NET IIRC.
Desktop search was supposed to be revolutionized, but it was scrapped just before Vista was released
rigatti@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If I recall, it was a new file system. So instead if folders, every file would just kind of have tags and could be dynamically grouped like that. I could very well be wrong, but I remember being excited for it.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Longhorn… the hype was strong with that one. I don’t even remember what the hype was about, just that Longhorn was supposed to be amazing.