Windows Xp Codename

[Nguyet Mahrenholz]

Microsoftcodenames are given by Microsoft to products it has in development before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves. 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 usually does not announce a final name until shortly before the product is publicly available. It is not uncommon for Microsoft to reuse codenames a few years after a previous usage has been abandoned.

The following are code names used for internal development cycle iterations of the Windows core, although they are not necessarily the code names of any of the resulting releases. With some exceptions, the semester designations usually matches the Windows version number.

Windows codenames are the codenames given by Microsoft to Windows products it has in development, before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves. 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 prior to the official release. Microsoft usually does not announce a final name until shortly before the product is publicly available. It is not uncommon for Microsoft to reuse codenames a few years after a previous usage has been abandoned.

Visual Basic 1.0 went under the codename Project Thunder until its release for Windows at the Comdex/Windows World trade show in 1991. A version for DOS would follow in 1992. Visual Basic combined the Ruby drag-and-drop interface generator (no relation to the Ruby programming language) designed by Alan Cooper and his company Tripod with the Embedded BASIC engine that Microsoft had designed for an abandoned database system codenamed Omega.

Codenamed Daytona (for Daytona International Speedway in Daytona, Fla.) because the goal was to increase the speed of the operating system, Windows NT 3.5 was released in 1994. It was the second release of the Windows NT operating system and the first version to adopt the names Windows NT Workstation and Windows NT Server for its editions. The 3.5 release included integrated Winsock and TCP/IP support, updating the incomplete implementation of TCP/IP in Windows NT 3.1.

Codenamed for the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort in British Columbia, Windows XP was released in 2001. It marked the first time Microsoft offered a consumer-oriented operating system built on the Windows NT kernel. While its NT foundation provided enhanced stability and efficiency over previous consumer-oriented versions of Windows, Microsoft also sought to make the OS more visually appealing with a completely redesigned task-based GUI. Windows XP was also the first Windows OS to include product activation in an effort to combat piracy.

Windows Vista may have been a flop, but Microsoft turned things around in 2009 with Windows 7, the current release of the operating system. It is the fastest-selling operating system in Microsoft history. It took its codename from the Austrian city of Vienna, which in 2007 and 2008 was ranked first globally for its culture of innovation in the Innovation Cities Index. It focused on multi-touch support, a redesigned Windows shell and taskbar and performance improvements.

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A couple of my contacts have confirmed that Microsoft Executive Vice President Terry Myerson recently mentioned the Threshold codename in an internal email about plans for his unified operating-system engineering group.

If all goes according to early plans, Threshold will include updates to all three OS platforms (Xbox One, Windows and Windows Phone) that will advance them in a way to share even more common elements.

(The codename Threshold, for those wondering, derives from the planet around which the first halo ring orbited in the original Halo game launched back in 2001. Threshold joins "Cortana," Microsoft's answer to Siri, as yet another codename with its origins in the Xbox franchise.)

From what I've heard, Threshold doesn't refer to a single Windows OS -- not even the expected, converged hybrid comprised of the Windows Phone OS and Windows RT. Instead, the codename refers to the wave of operating systems across Windows-based phones, devices and gaming consoles.

The Xbox One OS, Windows 8.x OS and Windows Phone 8 OS already share a common Windows NT core. As we've heard before, Microsoft is working to deliver a single app store across its myriad Windows platforms. Company officials also are laboring to make the developer toolset for all three of these platforms more similar.

But Threshold will add another level of commonality across Microsoft's various Windows-based platforms, sources said. With the Threshold wave, Microsoft plans to support the same core set of "high value activities" across platforms. These high-value activities include expression/documents (Office, and the coming "Remix" digital storytelling app, I'd think); decision making/task completion (Bing, I'd assume); IT management (Intune and Workplace Join, perhaps?) and "serious fun."

CEO Steve Ballmer mentioned this concept of high-value activities at back in July when he announced Microsoft's cross-company reorg to make the company more focused around its new "One Microsoft" mission.

In the late 1990s, initial development of what would become Windows XP was focused on two individual products; "Odyssey", which was reportedly intended to succeed the future Windows 2000, and "Neptune", which was reportedly a consumer-oriented operating system using the Windows NT architecture, succeeding the MS-DOS-based Windows 98. Based on the NT 5.0 kernel in Windows 2000, Neptune primarily focused on offering a simplified interface. A single build of Neptune, 5111, revealed early work on the activity center concept, with an updated user account interface and graphical login screen, common functions (such as recently used programs) being accessible from a customizable "Starting Places" page (which could be used as either a separate window, or a full-screen desktop replacement). It was later confirmed that Microsoft were planning a successor to Neptune known as Triton, although it was originally thought to be a service pack to Neptune.

However, the project proved to be too ambitious. Microsoft discussed a plan to delay Neptune in favor of an interim OS known as "Asteroid", which would have been an update to Windows 2000 (Windows NT 5.0), and have a consumer-oriented version. At the WinHEC conference on April 7, 1999, Steve Ballmer announced an updated version of Windows 98 known as Windows Millennium, breaking a promise made by Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in 1998 that Windows 98 would be the final consumer-oriented version of Windows to use the MS-DOS architecture.

In January 2000, shortly prior to the official release of Windows 2000, technology writer Paul Thurrott reported that Microsoft had shelved both Neptune and Odyssey in favour of a new product codenamed "Whistler". The goal of Whistler was to unify both the consumer and business-oriented Windows lines under a single platform. At WinHEC in April 2000, Microsoft officially announced and presented an early build of Whistler.

In June 2000, Microsoft began the technical beta testing process. Whistler was expected to be made available in "Personal", "Professional", "Server", "Advanced Server", and "Datacenter" editions. At PDC on July 13, 2000, Microsoft announced that Whistler would be released during the second half of 2001, and also released the first preview build, 2250. The build notably introduced an early version of a new visual styles system along with an interim theme known as "Professional" (later renamed "Watercolor"), and a hidden, early version of a two-column Start menu design. Watercolor was never meant to be the final theme for Whistler; in fact, it has been stated that Microsoft used it as a decoy until they were ready to show Luna. Build 2257 featured the official introduction of the two-column Start menu, and the addition of an early version of Windows Firewall.

So, If you thought my encounters with Windows Codenames like Hoover, Bobcat, Colorado, and Sunflower weren't bad enough, this one gets way creepier, and more scary. My name is David, and let me tell you this story about how I found this OS.

I was sitting in my living room, enjoying a plate of hot dogs in buns and sipping on flavored water. It was a lazy afternoon, and I had nothing better to do than to scroll through my laptop, searching for something interesting. Just when I was about to give up, I stumbled upon something intriguing. It was a software package called Windows: VeggieTales edition.

Being a fan of VeggieTales, I couldn't contain my excitement. I raced into my bedroom, clutching the package in my hand, ready to install it on my trusty old E-machines E-one. I carefully inserted the CD and waited with bated breath as the Windows pop-up appeared. Without a moment's hesitation, I clicked the "Yes" button. The installation process was surprisingly fast and hassle-free.

With a sense of anticipation, I restarted my computer. As the screen came to life, I was greeted by the familiar Windows 2000 startup screen, except the usual Windows symbol had been amusingly replaced by Bob the Tomato, sporting his signature VeggieTales smile. The VeggieTales-themed wallpaper adorned my desktop, adding a delightful touch to my computer screen.

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