Microsoft codename 'Longhorn' reloaded,does anyone know of a website that offers support?

I have recently begun a project experimenting with Microsoft codename 'Longhorn' which is a o/s Microsoft were working on before they decided to ditch it.





I have got the o/s up and running and its quite impressive.Its like a hybrid of XP and Vista.





Does anyone know of a site or useful forum which offers any support ?





Microsoft offers no support as its not recognized as one of their o/s as they ditched it.





I would like to implement IE7 and WMP11 amongst other things. I have tried installing it from the MS download site to no avail.


I only seem to be able to find IE7 for XP. Does anyone know where I can find a download for IE7 Vista as I feel this may work.





It seems to be running IE6 at the moment, hence I am using firefox at present.





Please if anyone could help with this and any other useful info. it would be much appreciated.





Thanks in advance

Microsoft codename 'Longhorn' reloaded,does anyone know of a website that offers support?
Longhorn was just Vista in it's earliest stages. It was based on xp's source code so the xp version of ie7 is probably more likely to work than a vista version. Microsoft gave up and just restarted everything, and came up with Vista. Microsoft worked on longhorn just prior to their release of XP and it was expected to be released in 2003. Something i ike better than IE7 and WMP11 is the latest version of Mozilla Firefox and VLC media player. Mozilla Firefox is less vulnerable to spyware and VLC can play many video formats that WMP can't. VLC will play anything, including DVD's without having to install any extra codecs. I just read that microsoft is already working on Vista's successor,codenamed Blackcome and Vienna, now called Windows 7. But yeah, those 2 programs I mentioned are definitely worth a try
Reply:Well you certainly can pick your battles.... The mere fact that MS came out with new versions of everything because vista isn't compatible with anything else makes it that much tougher.


Instead of going with IE7 for Vista which I don't think will work, try a good third party browser, i.e. firefox. Windows would be so much better if it came with that instead of IE anyway.


I say if your going to frankenstein an OS take the best from all over and try not to limit yourself to what MS released.
Reply:Longhorn was the codename for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 ! So how could they have ditched it if Vista was released ! IE7 should work for Vista since there's no other IE version available !





IE7 link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloa...

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