Only some years ago a modded 4074 image was released under the name The Way It Was Meant To Be (TWIWMTB) which added the fully working aurora effect to explorer. The effect was found and applications were made to show what it would look like when working. Although the “WinHEC build”, 4074, does have a working DWM engine, at first it looked like it didn’t have any aurora at all.īut it did. Most of these features wouldn’t be seen again until the next year at WinHEC 2004. The particular demo shows us working WinFS, content-based thumbnails, Aero Glass and an animated aurora effect in the preview panel. At first sight many people thought the demo was just a flash mock-up, but Hillel Cooperman was fast to debunk this. Aurora in the preview panel was first shown at the PDC 2003 conference when a private build was showcased. Using the powerful Avalon presentation engine, Longhorn was able to draw fancy animations, like Aurora, without any significant performance hit on the processor. Aurora is one of the eye-candy features which is best represented in Milestone 7 builds.
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