The OFFICIAL Longhorn (ALPHA) Thread

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Yvo

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I was lying... lol!

I have no clue how to get in there. I guess it requires good history on Betaplace/Windowsbeta and vouching from one of their core group members. NFI.

I heard from a reliable source that you needed to be a well known Microsoft employee and have one of your top bosses (with access to the special area on the intranet with Longhorn) vouch for you, then you get access, sounds about right, this 4xxx build is probably fake, there was a guy who posted his "4xxx" desktop in December Desktops about 3-4 days ago :unsure:

not true at all....

our family has a few friends that work at microsoft and i remember i job shadowed one of them 2 years ago.

Basically you can get the latest dialy builds from their intranet. I remember IE6 in development and to get to the IE intranet you would just point the browser (IE, ;)) to \\IEbeta. This also counted for Windows XP being in development The person I was with said that daily builds are incredibly buggy and that if Microsoft employees test software they use the builds marked by the lab as usable. Now I never asked what he meant with usable :rolleyes: .Sure you don't have to believe but they have a server called \\Graveyard where all the old stuff goes, it was quite funny.

Now of course you can alll think that this isn't true and that I am lying but I guess your just going to have to take my word for it.

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Samoa

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What this thread is not dead yet??? Longhorn was a freak of warped OS. The thing doesn't even work right. Please people give it up. The OS if you can call it that, was leaked on purpose. Case closed. This thread needs to be closed to save Neowin space for real posts like the unendable word association thread and never ending one word story game created by Keldyn. (what is Neowin coming to anyway???)

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RadishTM Veteran

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but it would be cool if one day you open your mailbox and ther is a cd and a letter from microsoft saying "please help us test this verion of Longhorn, but please, don't give it to anyone else."

LOL :D ....

Off Topic - one more post away from being 1337 :happy: ....

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Jason

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but it would be cool if one day you open your mailbox and ther is a cd and a letter from microsoft saying "please help us test this verion of Longhorn, but please, don't give it to anyone else."

LO:D:D ....

Off Topic - one more post away from being 133:happy:y: ....

Radish.

And the relivance of that number is ?

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kairon

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but it would be cool if one day you open your mailbox and ther is a cd and a letter from microsoft saying "please help us test this verion of Longhorn, but please, don't give it to anyone else."

LO:D:D ....

Off Topic - one more post away from being 133:happy:y: ....

Radish.

And the relivance of that number is ?

Don't you see? The number makes him leet:laugh:h:

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kairon

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I was lying... lol!

I have no clue how to get in there. I guess it requires good history on Betaplace/Windowsbeta and vouching from one of their core group members. NFI.

I heard from a reliable source that you needed to be a well known Microsoft employee and have one of your top bosses (with access to the special area on the intranet with Longhorn) vouch for you, then you get access, sounds about right, this 4xxx build is probably fake, there was a guy who posted his "4xxx" desktop in December Desktops about 3-4 days ago :unsure:

not true at all....

our family has a few friends that work at microsoft and i remember i job shadowed one of them 2 years ago.

Basically you can get the latest dialy builds from their intranet. I remember IE6 in development and to get to the IE intranet you would just point the browser (IE, ;)) to \\IEbeta. This also counted for Windows XP being in development The person I was with said that daily builds are incredibly buggy and that if Microsoft employees test software they use the builds marked by the lab as usable. Now I never asked what he meant with usable :rolleyes: .Sure you don't have to believe but they have a server called \\Graveyard where all the old stuff goes, it was quite funny.

Now of course you can alll think that this isn't true and that I am lying but I guess your just going to have to take my word for it.

I guess I could believe this. :)

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Jason

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but it would be cool if one day you open your mailbox and ther is a cd and a letter from microsoft saying "please help us test this verion of Longhorn, but please, don't give it to anyone else."

LO:D:D ....

Off Topic - one more post away from being 133:happy:y: ....

Radish.

And the relivance of that number is ?

Don't you see? The number makes him leet:laugh:h:

What he hell is leet, I make a point of ignoring this internet rubbish. Its pretty sad:laugh:h:

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RaQ

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What this thread is not dead yet??? Longhorn was a freak of warped OS. The thing doesn't even work right. Please people give it up. The OS if you can call it that, was leaked on purpose. Case closed. This thread needs to be closed to save Neowin space for real posts like the unendable word association thread and never ending one word story game created by Keldyn. (what is Neowin coming to anyway???)

he is worried about the chache(sp?) from neowin taking up all the space on his 2.0gb hard drive lol. :-P

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Bizkit

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you all know what? i thought that longhorn was cool, but when i had a folder with internet links in it, it would connect to the internet and get me thumb view of the pages. so the first time i let it do it and it took almost 7 minute to get them all done! little things like that is why im running winxp pro, not longhorn

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Samoa

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he is worried about the chache(sp?) from neowin taking up all the space on his 2.0gb hard drive lol. :-P

LOL :D

I like you Alex. You are Kool.

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you all know what? i thought that longhorn was cool, but when i had a folder with internet links in it, it would connect to the internet and get me thumb view of the pages. so the first time i let it do it and it took almost 7 minute to get them all done! little things like that is why im running winxp pro, not longhorn

You are so right! I went back to XPpro. I tried LongHorn, I liked a few things about it also. But in the end XP Pro has what I like/need. ;) I also tried Win.net Server betas. I was thinking it would handle my multimedia better. Maybe so. But I had problems with drivers, so I dumped it. I find XP pro great! :yes:

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Zip

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im not touchin it till it leaves alpha....i tried whister alpha (ouch) - never again

off the subject...who is your avator picture keldyn? i originally thought it was you ive seen sum1 else with it so i guess not

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