Windows Blackcomb

Windows Blackcomb was a version of Windows released on January 2005 and launched to public and general availability on March 2005. It was a big success for Microsoft.

Milestone 1
Startup : Windows 2000

Shutdown : Windows 2000

Media center : https://freesound.org/people/1121weew/sounds/506511/

Milestone 2
Startup : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtN6C-oxvOI&t=17s (present also in milestone 3)

Critical stop : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtN6C-oxvOI&t=37s

Valid : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtN6C-oxvOI&t=47s (present also in milestone 3 and 4)

Media center : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52eN-ocEG4k&t=37s (present also in milestone 3-4-5)

History
It was planned on the year 2000, as the sucessor for Windows Whistler and Longhorn. On 2003, was planned it sucessor, that is Windows Ballena, and a major update called Windows Honeycomb.

Build 5554
in July 2000 Blackcomb development begins, before Blackcomb is a development called Windows Saturn, which was the start of NT 6.1, Blackcomb may have more features than Whistler (later became XP). An OS reserved for the higher-end PC because it requires a minimum of 384MB RAM, a Pentium II processor at 266 MHz and 12Gb of HDD storage. Because it can contain the same functionalities as Windows Saturn.

Build 5554.1
Appeared on August 8, 2000 fixes the bugs of Windows Media Center for Saturn, with a new feature which is the clock that becomes dynamic.

Milestone 1
released in July 4, 2000

Build 5554
in July 2000 Blackcomb development begins, before Blackcomb is a development called Windows Saturn, which was the start of NT 6.1, Blackcomb may have more features than Whistler (later became XP). An OS reserved for the higher-end PC because it requires a minimum of 384MB RAM, a Pentium II processor at 266 MHz and 12Gb of HDD storage. Because it can contain the same functionalities as Windows Saturn.

Build 5554.1
Appeared on August 8, 2000 fixes the bugs of Windows Media Center for Blackcomb, with a new feature which is the clock that becomes dynamic.

Build 5592
in September 2000 Microsoft allows video games on Windows Blackcomb. For this, the compatibility mode is recommended to run a game.

Milestone 2
released in January 31, 2002

Milestone 3
released in March 1st, 2003

Milestone 4
Released in October 20, 2003

Developer Preview
Released in January 29 2004, the first public version of Windows Blackcomb.

Public Beta
Released in September 6 2004, the second public version of Windows Blackcomb

Release Candidate
Released in November 28 2004, the last prerelase version of Windows Blackcomb before the RTM (Release To Manucrafting).

RTM (Release To Manucrafting)
It was released on January 26th 2005, the first complete and retail version. It was launched to public and retail on March 24th 2005.