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.[1]
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 The .exe files have been archived by the Wayback Machine.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:
- bin8.exe - Longhorn Listmaker,
- burn1.exe - Burn to CD wizard,
- 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),
- msxday.exe - My Music library,
- 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.
First experience
Missing metadata
Insert CD
Automatically copy and play
Animating currently copy CD in most recently added
Status of copying CD
Virtual folder - all songs
Virtual folder - Most frequent played
Virtual folder - all artists 1
Virtual folder - all artists 2
Virtual folder - all artists 3
Virtual folder - all artists 4
Virtual folder - all artists 5
soundslike view 1
soundslike view 2
soundslike view 3
soundslike view 4
soundslike view 5
soundslike view 6
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
All albums
- All aritst.jpg
All Artists
Filter 1
Filter 2
Preview Pane 1
Preview Pane 2
Device 1
Device 2
Device 3
Device 4
Device 5
Device 6
Device 7
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.[2]
References
- ↑ http://heesung.jctsolution.com/ResumeKoo.pdf
- ↑ Melcher (25 May 2017). 4015 playlist maker. Retrieved on 7 April 2021.
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