Sporting a new boot screen (see 4051) and welcome/secure desktop screen (see below), as you boot it up you can tell something has changed. It's almost indistinguishable from 4040, so I left Aero Glass on its default opaque mode so the shots at least look a little different =)Ĥ042 is one of the first Milestone 7 builds, and it's instantly obvious. Without further ado, here are some shots of 4042.main. That's not to say it mightn't be added back later - PDC03 showed us 405x builds with the '3D' view option put back in, and the 3D views are up and running again in 4066. This explains why the LAB06 build is missing the experimental 3D features found in the MAIN build and other M6 builds everything not stamped with approval for inclusion in the Milestone 7 code is shelved. Anything that hadn't been reverse-integrated into main for the milestone is dropped. Such is a massive engineering effort as all the labs are synced literally overnight as the new code is brought in. The LAB06 build however, 4 days younger, is completely different visually, and is much more stable and usable.Įvidently this is around the time of the changeover to the newer Milestone code. The MAIN build is quite clearly still using Milestone 6 code the boot screen, welcome screen, wallpaper and shell are almost identical to 4040. Looking at the two builds side-by-side, you could be forgiven for thinking they're completely different OSes. We've had a look at 4042.Lab06_N.030909-1709 already, so I thought I'd show the difference between it and its counterpart, 4042.main.030905-1800. But what I'd really like is for some feedback! Do you have any comments/suggestions or even things you'd like to see more of on the blog? Please leave a comment on this post to share your thoughts, and spread the word! Thusfar, I think this blog has been successful, being able to bring a little bit of interesting information on Longhorn out to our readers. I also had a little mini-guide to extracting the WinPE version of a build from the disc.Īlso, we've been through a few builds so far: I've explained a little about the Longhorn VBLs (Virtual Build Labs), and had some rare, interesting information contributed. A great welcome to all our Russian visitors, and glad you are enjoying the site! We've had ~3200 page views so far, with the two biggest traffic sources being aeroxperience and, with TheVista translating the posts from this blog for their readers. Here we are, just a few days past the blog's first month on the web.

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