The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    longhorn compatible software

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by guana, Oct 1, 2008.

  1. guana

    guana Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    21
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    hey guys i m looking to update my window xp to longhorn..want
    to confirm that if windows drivers and softwares will work
    with longhorn...
     
    guana, Oct 1, 2008
    #1
  2. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    2,133
    Messages:
    6,399
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    206
    32-Bit or 64-Bit ?

    Applications work, most drivers won't.

    (64-Bit drivers are totally different)
     
    Andy, Oct 1, 2008
    #2
  3. vinumsv

    vinumsv MobileFreak™

    Reputations:
    502
    Messages:
    1,238
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    longhorn ???? I never know that OS was still available :) and I had Build Longhorn Build 4074 and most Vista Drivers works
     
    vinumsv, Oct 1, 2008
    #3
  4. guana

    guana Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    21
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    longhorn 4074"" m also looking to install it/..but m installing it for games purpose ..will it be good??
     
    guana, Oct 2, 2008
    #4
  5. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    3,905
    Messages:
    6,116
    Likes Received:
    89
    Trophy Points:
    216
    Not at all. It would be better to game on Windows XP SP3 (or Vista) rather than on Longhorn 4074 which is largely unstable and incomplete.
     
    namaiki, Oct 2, 2008
    #5
  6. guana

    guana Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    21
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    why people are saying that longhorn has been called vista now??i dont get it then why should vista be better??because vista is longhorn then!!
     
    guana, Oct 3, 2008
    #6
  7. Yotsuba

    Yotsuba Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    1,593
    Messages:
    671
    Likes Received:
    702
    Trophy Points:
    106
    People are saying that Longhorn is Vista because Longhorn was the development name for Vista. The screenshots of Longhorn that have been seen are from about 4 years ago, when Vista hadn't been named yet and was still in beta. Beta versions are for testing purposes only and by this time, most if not all of the beta versions of Vista or Longhorn are defunct and can't even be activated. If you want to upgrade, just get Vista.
     
    Yotsuba, Oct 3, 2008
    #7
  8. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    5,868
    Messages:
    5,889
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    206
    Where have you been for the last 2-3 years? You realize that Longhorn was the development name and now Vista is the OS that is being sold to the mainstream?
     
    atbnet, Oct 3, 2008
    #8
  9. vinumsv

    vinumsv MobileFreak™

    Reputations:
    502
    Messages:
    1,238
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    And Longhorn Which was shown in many Ads , Demo was totaly scrapped :mad: then they started to completely new code base using win2k3 Kernel :(
    and that was and is Vista :p

    [​IMG]
     
    vinumsv, Oct 3, 2008
    #9