Overview
"Avalon" is the code name for Microsoft's unified presentation subsystem for Windows. It consists of a display engine and a managed-code framework. "Avalon" unifies how Windows creates, displays, and manipulates documents, media, and user interface. This enables developers and designers to create visually-stunning, differentiated user experiences that improve customer connection. When it ships, scheduled for 2006, "Avalon" will be available on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and all future releases of the Windows operating system. When delivered, "Avalon" will become Microsoft's strategic user interface (UI) technology. The "Avalon" Community Technology Preview (CTP) became available to the MSDN members in November of 2004. It is our pleasure to release the same build to the general public in response to numerous requests


MSDN Avalon site http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/underst...on/default.aspx

Download here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

Did anyone try this yet? Experiences on usage and removal?

To use this effectively you need to be a software developer as its only a framework for enabling Longhorn apps to work on XP / 2003. You won't ever see Aero Longhorn's GUI working on either of theseOS's though, this just allows the Avalon apps to run.


You need the .Net framwork Version 2 beta to run this correctly

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

Thx for the clarification