Set of enhanced security features, included in Windows XP Service Pack 2. Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update Rollup 2 Named after Whistler Blackcomb, where design retreats were held. Planned to be a successor to Windows 2000 merged with Neptune to form Whistler. Planned to be the first consumer-oriented release of Windows NT succeeding the Windows 9x series merged with Odyssey to form Whistler. Windows 2000 did not have a codename because, according to Dave Thompson of Windows NT team, ' Jim Allchin didn't like codenames'. Named after the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.Ī cancelled project that would have fulfilled Bill Gates' 'Information at your fingertips' vision. Is also the name of a script that sets up the Windows NT development environment. ME stands for Millennium Edition Microsoft states that it is pronounced Me. Codename was reused for Internet Explorer 4.0 and Windows Desktop Update which incorporated many of the technologies planned for Nashville. Cancelled upgrade for Windows 95 sometimes referred to in the press as Windows 96. A writer for Maximum PC suggested that 'Detroit' and other Windows 95-era names were answers to the question posed by Microsoft's ' Where do you want to go today?' marketing campaign. Along with Win32s, this was one of the first steps towards moving the Windows desktop to a 32-bit code base.įor codenames of some of the internal components of Windows 95, see 'Jaguar', 'Cougar', 'Panther' and 'Stimpy' under § OS components. It included a 32-bit TCP/IP stack (when running on compatible hardware). This release was a mixture of a 32 bit kernel, supporting 32 bit device drivers, and 16-bit Windows for the upper OS layers. Windows 3.1 ( 16-bit) with enhanced networking designed to work particularly well as a client with the new Windows NT.

Portmanteau of Janus and Astro, the codename of MS-DOS 6. Janus is a Roman god usually depicted with two faces, here symbolizing the previously separate Windows and MS-DOS products.Ĭombined bundle of Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 6.

Operating systems Windows 3.x and 9x CodenameĬombined bundle of Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 5. There has been some suggestion that Microsoft may move towards defining the real name of their upcoming products earlier in the product development lifecycle to avoid needing product codenames. It is not uncommon for Microsoft to reuse codenames a few years after a previous usage has been abandoned. Microsoft usually does not announce a final name until shortly before the product is publicly available.

Many of these products (new versions of Windows in particular) are of major significance to the IT community, and so the terms are often widely used in discussions before the official release. Microsoft codenames are given by Microsoft to products it has in development before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves.

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