Microsoft kills Longhorn continuation project
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft has forced developers to close down a project aimed at reviving the original Windows client code-named "Longhorn." According to a blog posting on the site maintained by developers on the project -- called "Longhorn Reloaded" -- Microsoft sent a "cease and desist" letter to the project leaders asking them to shut it down shortly after the team posted the first release of the project online.
"It deeply saddens me that although Microsoft have known about this project for many months they only issued us with this notice a few days after we started to distribute" the first release, according to a post earlier this month on joejoe.org.Community.