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- ...that Windows Longhorn build 4015 (main) includes an early iteration of transparent window borders?
- ...that the supposed Longhorn sound scheme wasn't included in any Windows build, and in fact actually originated from a Samsung OEM theme for Windows XP?
- ...that the September 11 attacks caused major sudden changes to the "Prepare to Fly" advertising campaign for Windows XP?
- ...that official support for running Windows NT on Power Macintosh computers was in development?
- ...that Reversi in the Windows NT 3.1 April 1991 build displays square pieces, because the code for drawing circles wasn't implemented yet?
- ...that a Nashville Plus Pack build of Internet Explorer 4 included a humorous banner of the Internet Explorer logo kicking the Mozilla mascot as its page loading animation, meant as a jab towards its competition against Netscape?
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Start screen in Windows 10 Mobile build 16241
Problems encountered during development led to the creation and release of a stopgap release based on a direct fork of the Creators Update. It was eventually cancelled due to a reallocation of resources towards the Windows Core OS project. (Full article...)
