Stability increasingly became an issue as development progressed, and very few builds were publicly released as a result. As development progressed before the reset, Longhorn became a heavily bloated and unstable piece of vaporware, with release dates being pushed back on several occasions.
Windows Vista codenamed Longhorn is an operating system by Microsoftreleased to manufacturing on 8 November and general availability on 30 January It also had one of the longest development periods in Microsoft's history starting in May and continuing until November The 'Longhorn' project started in earnest in Mayoriginally intended as a bridging release between Whistler and the later version of Windows codenamed Blackcomb.Īs development progressed, many features slated for Blackcomb became part of Longhorn, and employees jumped ship from other parts of the company.
