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Some Microsoft codenames

  • Artigo

Like many other avid gamers, I was a little disappointed when the next console coming out from Nintendo codenamed "Revolution" was going to be marketed as the "Wii". Sure "weee" sounds like fun - but who wouldn't want to be part of the revolution?

Before I act too harshly on Nintendo for having a cooler codename than product name, here is a list of Microsoft codenames which would make for some pretty interesting products:

 

Bulletproof – Microsoft mail remote client

“The” Duke – Microsoft Xbox controller

Gandalf – Microsoft Encarta 93

Idaho – An early Windows prototype after XP (I’m from Idaho, so its cool :)

Nemesis – Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 7.0

Omega – An early version of Microsoft Access

Tarantula – Microsoft personal web server (IIS for Windows 95)

Thunder – Microsoft Visual Basic v1.0

Zamboni – Microsoft Visual C++ v4.1

 

In other news, May first (May day) we are going to begin new feature work on providing the Indigo design-time experience for Visual Studio! Stay tuned for details as they unfold.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2006
    PingBack from http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/04/30/lets-ban-cool-codenames-that-dont-pass-search-test/
  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 02, 2006
    Microsoft Bob v1 was code named Utopia
  • Anonymous
    May 03, 2006
    Hi Chris

    I tried to put this reply to the appropriate post, but comments are disabled on that post, so I'll say it here.

    I just wanted to say a big "thank you" for your bootstrapper SDK. I was really struggling to get a custom click once bootstrapper install until I hit google and found your little tool. Awesome man, thanks so much, you saved me many long hours of twiddling xml files by hand. Thanks! Your work is much appreciated.

    -Judah

    p.s. Why not put this tool on MSDN? Maybe next to those other handy tools like ILMerge and others...I think a lot of people would find this useful.