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| Windows | Windows 1.0 (Win16 - DOS 2.0 GUI), also 1.01, 1.03, 1.04 | Version 1.0, 1.01, 1.03, 1.04 |
| Windows 286 | Windows 2.0 (Win16 - DOS 3.0 GUI), | Version 2.0, 2.03 - 2.11 |
| Windows 3.0 | Win16 - subsystem) also 3.00a | |
| Janus | Windows 3.1 | Version 3.1 |
| Kato | Microsoft Windows for Workgroups (first initiated) | |
| Snowball | Windows for Workgroups 3.11 | Version 3.11 |
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Chicago |
Windows 95 |
Version 4.0 |
| Frosting | Windows 95 PlusPack! | |
| Knoxville | Short-lived codename for Microsoft® Windows® 95 refresh release ("close to Nashville"). | |
| Detroit | Windows 95 OSR 2 | Version 4.0b |
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Nashville |
Originated as Windows 96. "True Web Integration" technology. Web based shell for Windows. Designed as a new version of Windows but finally available as Internet Explorer 4 "Desktop Update" for Windows 95 and NT and integrated in next versions. (NOT IE4 itself!) |
Version 4.0 |
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Memphis |
Windows 98 |
Version 4.1 |
| Neptune | Planned successor of Windows 98 | Cancelled |
| Newshell | Alpha shell update for NT3.x | |
| Millennium, Georgia? | Windows ME | Version 4.9 |
| Panther | Port of Windows NT Win32 core to run on top of Cougar. Subsequently abandoned and replaced with Chicago | |
| Cougar | 32-bit protect-mode MS-DOS kernel. Planned to serve as the kernel for major Windows release (see No Name Cat). Subsequently merged with Jaguar and Stimpy (but not Panther) to become Chicago. | |
| Jaquar | Retail implementation of Cougar (DOS 7.00). Major features included more powerful and consistent command-line options, improved NLS support, Flash Memory Filesystem, etc. Subsequently merged with Cougar and Stimpy (but not Panther) to become Chicago. | |
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| Pegasus | Windows CE 1.0 | Version 1.0 |
| Venus | Windows CE for webTV | version 1.0? |
| Aplollo | Windows CE for Auto PC | Version 2.01 |
| Gryphon | Windows CE 2.0 for palm size PC | Version 2.01 |
| Mercury | Windows CE for Handeld PC | Version 2.0 |
| Alder | Windows CE 2.1 (Alder Enhancement Pack) | Version 2.1 |
| Axe | Embedded Toolkit for 2.0 and 2.1 (Platform builder) | Version 2.x |
| Hermes | Windows CE for webphones | version 2.11 |
| Jupiter | Windows CE for Handheld PC Pro V3 | Version 2.11 |
| Wyvern | Windows CE for Color Palm PC | Version 2.11 |
| Orion | Windows CE for Chinese handheld PC | Version 2.11 |
| Goldeneye | Windows CE for AutoPC | version 2.12 |
| Brich | Windows CE 2.11 2.12 (Brich Enhancement Pack) also Embedded Toolkit | Version 2.11 2.12 |
| Cedar | Windows CE 3.0 | Version 3.0 |
| Tazz | Microsoft Phone | |
| Galileo | Windows CE for H/PC V4 (Handheld PC 2000) | version 3.0 |
| Rapier | Windows CE for P/PC V2.0 (Pocket PC 2000) Palm-size PC with a new user interface. |
Version 3.0 |
| Chainsaw | Windows CE Platform Builder 3.0 | Version 3.0 |
| Talisker | Windows CE 4.0 (Windows Powered)+ Platform builder 4.0 | Version 4.0 |
| Merlin | Windows CE 2002 (Pocket PC 2002) | Version 4.5 |
| Jameson | Windows CE.NET Update (IPv6, SMS, MS Office Viewers) | Version 4.1 |
| Stinger | Windows CE for Smartphone V1 (Smartphone 2002) | |
| McKendrick | Windows CE for Media2go (Media Center Pocket) | Version 4.x |
| Mira | Windows CE for Smart Display Devices | Version 4.0 |
| Visine | Novell Netware migration tool that came with older versions of NT (3.x) | |
| Jupiter, Macallan | Windows CE.NET Corporate Edition | Version 5.0 |
| Hai Ku (Japanese poetry form) | Multimedia Extensions for Windows (circa 1991) | |
| WinPad | prototype handheld/portable device (roughly the size of a Filofax) that MS was developing with Compaq and Toshiba. Supposed to use the Chicago/Win95 OS framework, but the technology of the day was far too underpowered, expensive and power-hungry for such devices, and the project was cancelled | |
| Stimpy | Personal Information Manager (PIM) / News client befor OE | |
| T-box | next-generation automotive software | |
| Ozone | Pocket PC 2003 | |
| Laguna | The next version of SQL Server For Windows CE | |
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| Daytona | Windows NT 3.5 | Version 3.5 |
| SUR (Shell Update Release) | Originally a Patch for Windows NT 3,51, in order to implement the new Windows 95 look and feel. Later further technologies were then implemented, which actually were only intended for Cairo . For this reason from " the Patch " Windows NT 4,0 and the remaining technologies of " Cairo " was then shifted on NT 5,0. | Version 4.0.1381 |
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Cairo |
Originally Windows NT 4,0, later then a designation of technologies, which were planned partly for NT 4 and/or NT 5. |
Cancelled |
| Impala | Windows NT 4.0 Embedded | Version 4.0.1381 |
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NT5 (not really a codename) |
Windows 2000 |
Version 5.0.2195 |
| Astroid | win2k ServicePack1 | |
| Janus | Windows 2000 64 Bit | Version 5.0 |
| Astroid | Windows 2000 Service-Pack 1 | Version 5.0.2195 |
| Odyssey | Planned successor of Windows 2000 | Cancelled |
| Whistler | Windows XP (Merge of Odyssey & Neptune) | Version 5.1.2600 |
| Whistler Server | Windows Server 2003 | Version 5.2.3700 |
| Bobcat | Windows Server 2003 Small Business Edition | Version 5.2 |
| Mantis | Windows XP Embedded 5.1 | Version 5.1.2600 |
| Freestyle | Windows XP Media Center Edition | Version 5.1 |
| Harmony | Windows XP Media Center Edition 1.5 | |
| No codename just Tablet PC | Tablet PC | Vesion 5.1 |
| Longhorn | Successor of Windows XP (client only) | Version 6.0 |
| Blackcomb | Successor of Longhorn (server only?) | Version 7.0 |
| Bear paw | The next version of Windows Terminal Services for win2k3 | |
| Lonestar | Tablet PC 2004 | |
| NAS 3.0 | Windows Storage Server 2003 | |
| OS/2 3.0 | Became Windows NT | |
| Mir | Mercury internal release (codename for Microsoft® Windows NT® Server upgrades of existing Xenix servers). | |
| Mesquite | Batch Job Management for Microsoft® Windows NT Server/Windows 200x. | |
| Sundown | Windows 64 bit | |
| WinFX | next-generation Windows programming model (longhorn) | |
| Aero | Longhorn 3D-rendering user interface | |
| Springboard | back-port various Longhorn security technologies into winXP SP2 | |
| Symphony | Media Center 2005 | |
| Slalom | Media Center Longhorn | |
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| AirStream | Services for wireless connections to Exchange | |
| Avalanche | Internet-Information-Services 5.0 | Version 5.0 2195 |
| Avalon | 3-Di UI (for Longhorn) "The next-generation platform for Windows client applications." Client application platform built upon .NET Framework, to be available in Longhorn. | |
| Argo | Query-Services for SQL-Server 2000 | |
| Blackbird | portable execution platform, java competitor. cancelled, but likely the basis for .net |
cancelled |
| Blackbird | MSN SDK | |
| Blizzard | Business oriented Set of Services in .NET My Services | |
| Basecamp | VPN dial-up networking update (PPTP) for win95 | |
| Calais | Smart-Card Technologies | |
| Cascade | Windows Active-Directory | |
| Cayman | NetMeeting 3.0 | Version 3.01 4.4.3400 |
| Chrome | ChromeEffects (GUI-Feature) | |
| Comet | Network-Tools for Windows 2000 | |
| Corona | Windows Media-Technologies 9.0 | Version 9.0 |
| Coyote | Distributed Views for SQL-Server 2000 | |
| Darwin | Windows Installer 1.1 | Version 1.1 |
| Dart | Setup for Oracle, SQL-Server ODBC-driver | |
| DaVinci | Database-Design & Query-Tools | |
| Denali | Active Server Pages| underpinnings & structure of MSN 2.0 released in VisualStudio | Version 1.0 |
| Europa | New GUI for the MSN-Community | |
| Fahrenheit | Direct X | Version 10.0 |
| Falcon | Windows Messaging Queuing Server | |
| Fusion | Technologies for DLL improvements | |
| Gemini | Succesor GUI "Europa" for MSN-Community | |
| Gibraltar | Internet-Information-Server 1.0 | Version 3.0 |
| Grizzly | Workflow-Designer for SQL-Server 2000 | |
| Hailstorm | XML Message Interface | |
| HardeningPack | Internet Explorer Enhanced Security (Windows Server 2003) | Version 6.1 |
| Hydra |
Windows NT Terminal Services |
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| Jakarta | JAVA-Engine for Internet Explorer 3.0 | |
| Jupiter | E-Business-Initiative Unification of Biztalk 2004, SharePoint Portal Server V3 ? and a merged Commerce Server /siteserver. | |
| Kagera | OLE-DB Provider for ODBC-Data | |
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Internet-Information-Server 4.0 | Version 4.0.1381 |
| Lightning | .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) | |
| Luna | Theme technology for Windows XP | |
| Luxor | OLE-Provider-Services for Yukon | |
| Magic Carpet | Passport-Technologien | |
| Marvel | Microsoft Network (MSN) | |
| Merlin | Microsoft® Internet Explorer for Dreamcast (cancelled circa 1999). | |
| Mercury | DUN 1.2 update for Win95 | |
| Oprah | Netmeeting | |
| Nile | OLE-DB | |
| O'hare | Internet Explorer 1.00. How you get from Chicago (Windows 95) to the rest of the world. | |
| Palladium | Hardware-Embedded Security (Chip) (Trustworthy Computing) | |
| Plato | OLAP-Server | |
| Quartz | Direct Show | |
| Slate | Microsoft Management-Console (MMC) | Version 1.0 |
| Steelhead | Windows NT Routing & Remote-Access Services (RAS) | |
| Stinger | Windows CE Cellphone-edition (SmartPhone) | |
| Talisman | 3D Graphic- und Multimedia Architecture | |
| Tensor | OLE-DB Extensions for OLAP | |
| Touchdown | Outlook 97 (Also mentioned:Public folders for MS Exchange) | |
| Trident | Dynamic HTML (DHTML) | |
| Whistler | Speech Recognition (text-to-speech) | |
| Whisper | Speech Recognition (speech-to-text) | |
| Whitehorse | Web services-based business-process modeling tool | |
| Wolfpack | Windows Cluster-Services | |
| Normandy | Microsoft Commercial Internet System (MCIS) | |
| Idaho | Preliminary/alpha version of the next Windows-Longhorn | |
| Aruba | Windows Media Platform for Blackcomb | |
| Whitehorse | A set of integrated graphical design tools that extend and complement Visual Studio .NET. Release | |
| Xenon | Xbox 2 | |
| Nomad | Longorn Command Shell Msh is the new scripting and automation environment for Windows | |
| Spark | Integration of Windows SharePoint Services and CMS | |
| WinFS | The digital aid meets meta data. Store all your "stuff" and find it seemlessly with hundreds of rules | |
| Athens | New prototype PC design (with HP) | |
| Indigo | SOAP 1.2 + WS-*. The future of distributed computing | |
| Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) |
MSN Direct | |
| Thungsten | Microsoft Rights Management Services (RMS) | |
| Sidewhow | Task Shelf of Longhorn (MS research) | |
| Babylon | MSSearch shipped by the Site Server product team (derived from the Tripoli code base) | |
| Ren | Email client before OE | |
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| Osmium | Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 | Version 5.5 |
| Platinum | Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server | Version 6.0.5762.4 |
| Mercury | Microsoft Exchange 6.1 (cancelled) | version 6.1 (cancelled) |
| Titanium | Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server (Interims) | Version 6.5 |
| Kodiak | Microsoft Exchange 2006 Server | Version 7.0 |
| Magma | Embedded Exchange. Microsoft® Exchange core store technology being developed into a storage solution to serve a range of application architectures. Available in three flavors: Enterprise, Departmental, and Clients (Local Store). | |
| Systems-Management Server | ||
| Hermes | Microsoft Systems-Management-Server 1.0 | Version 1.0 |
| Opal | Microsoft Systems-Management-Server 2.0 | Version 2.0.1493 |
| Topaz, Emerald | Microsoft Systems-Management-Server 2003 | Version 2.5.2389 |
| Ruby, Diamond | Successor of SMS 2003 | Version 3.0 |
| SNA-Server /HIS | ||
| Orca | Microsoft SNA-Server 4.0 | |
| Thor |
SNA-Server ODBC services |
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| Babylon | Microsoft Host-Integration-Server 2000 | Version 5.0.798 |
| FullSail | HIS 2004 | |
| SQL-Server | ||
| Starfighter | Enterprise Manager SQL-Server | Version 6.0 |
| SQL95 | Microsoft SQL-Server 6.0 | |
| Hydra | Microsoft SQL-Server 6.5 | Version 6.5 |
| Sphinx |
Microsoft SQL-Server 7.0 |
Version 7.0 |
| Shiloh | Microsoft SQL-Server 2000 | Version 8.0.534 |
| Yukon | Microsoft SQL Server 2004? | Version 9.0 |
| Liberty | 64Bit-Edition SQL-Server 2000 | Version 8.0 |
| Acadia | Microsoft SQL Server 2006? | |
| Rosetta | SQL Reporting Services | |
| Other Servers | ||
| Greenwich, Realtime Communication Server (RTC) | Live Communications Server (Office System) | version 1.0 |
| RTC 2.0 | Live Communications Server 2.0 RTM 2005 | Version 2.0 |
| Catapult | Microsoft Proxy-Server 1.0 | Version 1.0 |
| Comet | Microsoft Internet-Security & Acceration Server 2000 | Version 3.0.1200.165 |
| Tripoli | Microsoft Index-Server | Version 1.0 |
| Plutonium | Microsoft Commerce-Server 4.0 | Version 4.0 |
| Sable | Microsoft E-Commerce Server 2001 | Version 1.0 |
| Tiger | Microsoft Media-Server | Version 4.0 |
| Viper | Microsoft Transaction-Server 2.0 | Version 2.0 |
| Tahoe | SharePoint Server 2001 | Version 1.0 |
| Latinum | Microsoft BizTalk-Server 2000 | Version 1.0 |
| TrustBridge, Meta Directory Services (MMS) | Microsoft Identity Integration Server | |
| Thorium | Enterprise edition of Microsoft Commerce Server 2002. | |
| Ossa | Microsoft® Site Server 2.00. First release of Olympus. Combination of the Normandy technology and Merchant Server 1.10 to form a retail release. | |
| Microsoft System Center | unify all of Microsoft's management products in one offering (MOM,SMS, Appcenter) 2006 | |
| Bizet | BizTalk 2002 Server | |
| Kahiltna | Microsoft® Commerce Server 2.00, formerly Merchant Server. | |
| Stingray | ISA v 2 | |
| Narayan | ||
| Microsoft Enterprise Location Server (MELS) | Microsoft Location Server (MLS) | |
| Discovery | Merge of Commerce Server and CMS server RTM 2004? | |
| Matrix | Sharepoint Portal Server v 2.0 | |
| SharePoint Portal Server V3 | SharePoint Portal Server V3 RTM 2005 | |
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| Aspen | Microsoft Visual Studio 98 | Version 5.0 |
| Astro | Microsoft DOS 6.0 | Version 6.0 |
| Athena | Microsoft Outlook Express | |
| Apollo | Project 98 | |
| Goalline | Microsoft Mail 3.2 | Verion 3.2 |
| Capone | Microsoft Mail 4.0 | Version 4.0 |
| Freon | Sucsessor of X-Box | |
| Gecko | Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 | Version 5.0 |
| Metro | MSN 2.5 | |
| Texas | MSN 8 client | |
| Mars | MSN 7 client | |
| M4 | Word 97 | |
| Mistral | MSN 6 client | |
| NGO (Next Generation Office / Office.NET / Office11 | Microsoft Office 2003 | Version 11.0 |
| Vegas | Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 | Version 6.0.8176 |
| Office10 | Microsoft Office XP | Version 10.0 |
| Opus | Microsoft Word | |
| Boston | Visual Studio 6 | Version 6.0 |
| Rainier | Microsoft Visual Studio.NET | Version 7.0 |
| Everett | Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 | Version 7.1 |
| Renard | Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 | Version 3.0 |
| RoadRunner | Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 | Version 5.0 |
| Bonzai | Visual C++ | Version 1.0 |
| Sequoia | Visual C++ 2.0 | cancelled |
| Caviar | Visual C++ | Version 1.5 |
| Barracuda | Visual C++ for NT | Version 1.52 |
| Dolphin | Visual C++ | Version 2.0 |
| Sushi | Visual C++ (Japanese) | Version 2.0 |
| Wings | Visual C++ for Mac | Version 2.0 |
| Olympus | Visual C++ | Version 4.0 |
| Jakarta | Visual J++ | Version 1.0 |
| Vegas | Visual J++ | Version 6.0 |
| Sedona | Microsoft Visual FoxPro 7.0 | Version 7.0 |
| Taz | Microsoft Visual FoxPro 2.0 | Version 2.0 |
| Rotor | CLI Shared Source Code project | |
| Thunder | Microsoft Visual Basic | |
| Watson | Microsoft Outlook 2001 for Apple Macintosh | Version 8.7 |
| Utopia | MS BOB | Version 1.0 |
| Whidbey | Visual Studio .NET 2004 | |
| Cool | C# (C sharp 1998) | |
| Orcas | VS.NET Longhorn Release (03/06/2003 : RTM Planned for 2005) | |
| Office Longhorn | Office 12 RTM 2005 | Version 12 |
| Europa | Visual FoxPro 9.0 | Version 9.0 |
| Manga | the development system for MSN 1.0 | |
| Toledo | Visual Foxpro 8.0 | |
| Cirrus | Access 1.0 | |
| Scribbler | Onenote 2003 (Part of Office 2003 system) | |
| Sparkle | Tool to automate XAML application development | |
| Trinity | Visual Studio Tools For Office | |
| Green | Next generation Business Solutions aka Microsoft Business Framework | |
| MSN 9 | MSN Premium | |
| Memo | MS Write for WIndows 3.0 | |
| Iris | Office 2003 Business Contact Manager | |
| Magellan | Intellimouse International | |
| Saturn | ASP .NET Web Matrix | |
| Mickey | Serial/ PS2 Consumer Mouse | |
| Starlite | NET Compact Framework 1.0 | |
| XDocs | InfoPath 2003 (Part of Office 2003 system) | |
