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Longhorn was supposed to include a filesystem to replace NTFS, something we still haven't gotten almost two decades later. One of Vista's most noticeable and memorable additions was the "Aero" design, which used Direct3D to draw translucent, glassy windows that could fade gracefully in and out of view, replacing the 2D windows from older Windows versions. Over the weekend, Twitter user thebookisclosed who makes a habit of digging deep into old development versions of Windows gave us a look at the earliest known version of Aero in a Longhorn development build from March of , nearly four years before Vista would be released to the public.

This early Aero effect looks pretty different from what we eventually got in Windows Vista—the translucency and the smoked-glass look are here, but the final effect as seen in Windows Vista and Windows 7 is shinier, and the blur is more pronounced.

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