At the WinHEC trade show in May 2003, Steve Ball, a Program Manager in the Windows Audio Video Devices Group, presented a talk called "Windows Longhorn Audio/Video Devices User Experience (UX)." This talk was notable for a few reasons, but most conspicuously because his slideshow contained imagery depicting the "Aero" user interface in Windows Longhorn. Sadly, when I received the batch of WinHEC slideshows Microsoft provided to the press and other attendees, Ball's Longhorn shots had been purposefully removed.
On August 19, 2003, I finally obtained the unedited version of Ball's presentation with the Windows Longhorn shots intact. Here they are, with an explanation of what you're looking at.
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