- Windows longhorn wallpapers windows 10#
- Windows longhorn wallpapers license#
- Windows longhorn wallpapers plus#
Unknown (credited on Corbis to J.Compared to Longhorn, Windows 10 looks like an older operating system. We don’t know if for better or for worse, this version of the operating system never saw the light of day. This set would be slightly updated in build 5469, where the default wallpaper is changed to the wallpaper that is img22 in the final release the previous wallpaper was reallocated to img37. However, the mountain lake wallpaper would stay, albeit at a higher resolution and slightly more cropped, along with two of the placeholder wallpapers. Later appears in builds 5355 to 5840.16384 as img24 (later img37) at a higher resolution, and in widescreen as img34īy build 5355, most of the previous wallpapers were removed and replaced with an entirely new set of 1600x1200 wallpapers, with the widescreens ones being at 1600x900, oddly at 16:9 despite 16:10 being more common back then. Build 5342 additionally added five folders consisting of 36 placeholder wallpapers, with two of those remaining in later builds.ĭefault wallpaper of builds 5259 to 53, although likely due to a bug In a few earlier unleaked builds, this wallpaper appears with brandingīy build 5252 a handful of new wallpapers were added, although XP's wallpapers are still present. The bull photo was likely taken off the internet it does not appear to be a stock photo. Starting from build 5048, the default wallpapers were all titled Longhorn, although this wiki will refer to them as just being the default wallpapers rather than calling all of them Longhorn. Please note that this article also includes wallpapers that were added after Longhorn was renamed to Vista.ĭuring this point in development, all of the wallpapers were identical to XP's except the default wallpapers and later the branding wallpaper. Reused from Microsoft Plus! 98 albeit without the copyright text Used in a PDC 2003 Longhorn AERO presentation demo, albeit zoomed in and flipped horizontally Used in a Longhorn Days demo circa 2002, albeit flipped horizontally Reused from Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP Longhorn Los Angeles Convention Center wallpaper 2 Longhorn Los Angeles Convention Center wallpaperĪ cropped version of this appears in build 4050 (private/Lab06, October 22 compile) Used in the SuperFetch demo at PDC 2005 may also have been used earlierĪlso used in an MSN Explorer demo that was falsely labelled as a Blackcomb/Longhorn demo Used in a PDC 2003 Longhorn AERO presentation demoĪ dark blue version also appears in the Healthcare demo from 2003 May not be official while it is a stock photo, it has not been found in any leaked demos May not be official, as it has not been found in any leaked demos despite the metadata crediting a "Hillel C.", Hillel Cooperman has confirmed that he never owned the camera it was taken with In some cases, there is no way to know for sure however they will be listed here until proven they are fake. Also, please note that some of these wallpapers may not even be official at all. In some cases, the files within the demos have the UI elements already included on them.
Windows longhorn wallpapers plus#
This list is incomplete, as there are demos that have not yet saw the light of the day, plus many wallpapers are covered by UI elements making them very difficult to reverse search. Each of these have their own unique wallpapers, with a few of them being recycled from previous versions of Windows such as Windows 2000 and XP, along with Microsoft Plus! 98. The other wallpapers remained the same as XP's throughout this phase of Longhorn's development.ĭue to its low quality and it being early in development, it is likely this photo was merely taken from the internet, while the saturation was boostedīuild 4050 (private/Lab06, October 22 compile)Ī cropped version of a Longhorn Los Angeles Convention Center wallpaperīuild 4067 (private/lddm dev tech(davidmo).040212-1646) to 4082Īs a result of Longhorn's ambitiousness, Microsoft produced a large amount of Macromedia Director demos to demonstrate the many ideas the company had for Longhorn. Jenny Lam was involved in the wallpaper selection process, like with post-reset Longhorn/Vista.
All of these wallpapers share the same filename, Bliss.bmp, however this wiki refers to them just as default wallpapers to avoid confusion.
Windows longhorn wallpapers license#
From late 2003 onward they would license rights managed images from Getty Images. Windows XP's wallpaper set appears in every Longhorn build until 5355 these are not listed here.ĭuring late 2002 and early-mid 2003 the default wallpapers were auroras created by Microsoft's own designers, including Robert Stein.