Windows Longhorn/Longhorn Days

A screenshot of a Windows "Longhorn" demonstration displayed in a Longhorn Days video.

Longhorn Days is a set of Macromedia Director demos created by Microsoft to demonstrate the capabilities intended for the Windows "Longhorn" operating system.

Videos

Portions of the demos appeared in a promo video for PDC 2003, with "Get the Party Started" by P!nk playing in the background.

Stephen Chapman also made two videos based on these demos. These may be accessed here and here.

Demos

Some of the demos are available at the website of Heesung Koo, product designer for the Windows team during the development of Longhorn.

The executable files showing how the Basket tile was intended to function were previously available at here. The .exe files have been archived by the Wayback Machine. Koo's page detailing how the Basket tile was designed to work (with links to the .exe files) is available here.

Other demos were also available here, but access to this page has since been forbidden. The .exe files were archived by the Wayback Machine. These demos are:

1. bin8.exe - Longhorn Listmaker,
2. burn1.exe - Burn to CD wizard,
3. e2e photos.exe - My Pictures and Videos (the basic functionality of this is in Windows 10's Photos app, though not the user interface and the auto-rotate function),
4. msxday.exe - My Music library,
5. tree1.exe - Longhorn Listmaker navigation.

Other demos, including unused ones, were made available by ReflectiaX and may be downloaded here.

Gallery

These images were taken from Heesung Koo's website, specifically on his "Longhorn Music & Radio Overview" page.

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  First experience

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  Missing metadata

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  Insert CD

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  Automatically copy and play

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  Animating currently copy CD in most recently added

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  Status of copying CD

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  Virtual folder - all songs

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  Virtual folder - Most frequent played

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  Virtual folder - all artists 1

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  Virtual folder - all artists 2

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  Virtual folder - all artists 3

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  Virtual folder - all artists 4

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  Virtual folder - all artists 5

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  soundslike view 1

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  soundslike view 2

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  soundslike view 3

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  soundslike view 4

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  soundslike view 5

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  soundslike view 6

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  visual design 2: sound wave view-support rich tool tip when users hover on the object instead of full function of preview pane. If users want to see preview pane, they could change soundslike view to the list view

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  All Albums

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  All Artists

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  Filter 1

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  Filter 2

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  Preview Pane 1

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  Preview Pane 2

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  Device 1

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  Device 2

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  Device 3

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  Device 4

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  Device 5

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  Device 6

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  Device 7

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  Audiotron device

Implementation

Build 4015 has a playlist maker, the UI of which is similar to one of the images above from Heesung Koo's website.