It’s funny, over two years ago I made the first post ( that wouldn’t be deleted ) about how I managed to find and install a copy of Longhorn Version 4008. Today I downloaded and installed a copy of Longhorn ( or Windows Vista ) Version 5048 and installed it.

Oh my god! This is the most horrible OS I’ve ever had the displeasure of trying to navigate. I understand, through reading a few sites that the functionality has been stripped out because they changed code bases or somesuch nonsense, but the changes they had made, to the menus, to the search function, to the way files are organised.

Hello Microsoft, I install PCs for a living. I teach people who have never used a computer how to navigate through Windows XP. There is no chance way I will be doing this if the layout stays the same.

Anyone that wants pretty ( or not so pretty ) screenshots should go to that site I linked up above. Pay close attention to the “Computer” and “Internet Explorer” screenshots. The guy that wrote that article wrote it in May ‘05. I just trashed my Laptop’s XP install ( it was full of crap anyway ) to try this out.

Downloading Fedora Core 4 DVD-ISO now.

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