Decided to give little more time to Longhorn.
Tested some games and benchmarks.
Results are almost same as Windows XP pro x64 edition. Within 5% of it. Little on slower side and thats imaginable cosidering the drivers I used were not optimised for Longhorn.
Office 2003 works, M$ antispyware works, all games i have worked just fine.
Internet seems zippy. I dont know how but my CSS pings have come down below 100 all of a sudden which never happened before.
I am surprised to see this kind of stability in Alpha version, though it could be bcoz this is based on Win2k3 code.
Overall the most stable ALPHA I have ever tested. Now only if the FireFox worked
And yeah there is legal way to aquire Longhorn. MSDN :hap2:
And yeah this is DVD only build. No CD setup and from the official news final Longhorn will be DVD release only. And yes this is PUBLIC alpha build.