1 Aug
2024
1 Aug
'24
4:15 p.m.
On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 15:06 -0800, Michael Huff via cctalk wrote:
I'm pretty sure it was Vista that was codenamed
'Longhorn', wasn't
it?
4chan leaked a bunch of code to 2000/XP with a spattering of NT 3.5
(rumour
goes)[1]. Then Microsoft apparently painted themselves into a corner
making
Vista and reset the whole thing based on 2003's code base.
[1]
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/working-windows-xp-source-code-posted-to-…
I remember a columnist in Computerworld or PC Week or some other 1990's
trade rag (Spencer Katt?) remarking that "Using Windows NT is like
having a child help you."