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Today I've been working on an article about Longhorn's OOBE. I have only seen the OOBE myself in builds 4001 and 4008.
I'd like to hear from you if you have seen in the OOBe in other builds too
Unfortunately all the Longhorn builds I have used have been modified and use a custom install. Someday I look forward to being able to experience the OOBE.
I remember the 4008 OOBE when recording the video for my YouTube series, but I accidentally skipped it (thought it had crashed; turns out it was an issue with the mouse pointer integration) so it didn't make it to the video. I don't remember seeing any OOBEs in any of the other builds I've looked at so far (3683, 3718, 4015), but if you're interested then follow the series (new episode every 14 days) as I'm sure there will be more OOBEs coming up.
Nice article!
Also, to answer the question: from the builds that I had opportunity (and time) to install and test in VMs, I have only seen OOBEs in 3683, 3718 (XP-style though) and 4001. I have also installed 4008, but, different than what you said in your article, I haven't seen any OOBE in them... Besides that builds, I have also tried 4015 and 4029.
Skywatcher wrote:I remember the 4008 OOBE when recording the video for my YouTube series, but I accidentally skipped it (thought it had crashed; turns out it was an issue with the mouse pointer integration) so it didn't make it to the video. I don't remember seeing any OOBEs in any of the other builds I've looked at so far (3683, 3718, 4015), but if you're interested then follow the series (new episode every 14 days) as I'm sure there will be more OOBEs coming up.
As earlier said, the Milestone 3 build all still have the XP-style oobe, so just have seen them. Looks like 4001 and 4008 are the only ones to have the new oobe working correctly. I myself have all leaked longhorn builds installed and can assure you, you won't see alot more oobe. It's strange, but at a certain point the oobe was just abandoned (it looks like) as even Milestone 7 builds still have the old blue oobe. Probably the oobe not showing up has something to do with the buggy second stage in most longhorn builds.
4011 was the last I think i saw the OOBE in, though you clicked next and you did get logged on without going to the account creation page, not sure if 4015 shares the same behavior
Lukas Marsik wrote:4011 was the last I think i saw the OOBE in, though you clicked next and you did get logged on without going to the account creation page, not sure if 4015 shares the same behavior
Yes, 4015 somehow acts like that, but actually I don't recall seeing any reference to OOBE after installing it....
