![]() Several features of Longhorn planned that were actually shipped include the glass replicating Aero theme (which followed the Slate and Jade themes from earlier builds), along with the Windows Sidebar - although this was shipped as a standalone utility where as most builds (at least in pre-reset) shipped this as part of explorer.exe. This combined with Microsoft's trustworthy computing initiatives caused the reset. Features were being written into the OS at an alarming rate with a significant lack of QA or vision of true requirement. ![]() The reset occurred as Microsoft's development staff had lost focus on the project as a whole and what was required to be done in order to bring it to market. ![]() Development on the OS started in May 2001 and went through two unique development cycles separated by a development reset in 2004. ![]() Windows Longhorn was the pre-release codename for Windows Vista and was the successor to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (built from NT 5.2 codebase). ![]()
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