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Microsoft codenames are the codenames 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 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.
There has been some suggestion that Microsoft may move towards defining the real name of their upcoming products earlier in the product development lifecycle so as to avoid needing product codenames.
Operating systems
Windows 3.1x and 9x
Codename | Preliminary name | Final name | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sparta, Winball | Windows Plus | Windows for Workgroups 3.1 | Windows 3.1 (16-bit) with enhanced networking; designed to work particularly well as a client with the new Windows NT. | |
Snowball | Windows for Workgroups 3.10 | Windows for Workgroups 3.11 | Although this release was still 16-bit Windows, it included a 32-bit TCP/IP stack (when running on compatible hardware). Along with Win32s, this was one of the first steps towards moving the Windows desktop to a 32-bit code base. | |
Chicago | Windows 4.0 | Windows 95 | For codenames of some of the internal components of Windows 95, see "Jaguar", "Cougar", "Panther" and "Stimpy" under § OS components. | |
Detroit | Windows 4.1 | Windows 95 OSR 2 | Named after Detroit, Michigan. 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. | |
Nashville | Windows 96 | — | Cancelled upgrade for Windows 95; sometimes referred to in the press as Windows 96. Codename was reused for Internet Explorer 4.0 and Windows Desktop Update which incorporated many of the technologies planned for Nashville. | |
Memphis | Windows 97, Windows 4.1 | Windows 98 | ||
Millennium | Windows 4.9 | Windows ME | ME stands for Millennium Edition. |
Windows NT family
Codename | Preliminary name | Final name | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Razzle | NT OS/2 | Windows NT | |
Daytona | — | Windows NT 3.5 | Named after the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. |
SUR (Shell Update Release), Cairo | — | Windows NT 4.0 | Microsoft originally planned for NT 4.0 to be just a simple "Shell Update Release" to integrate the Windows 95 GUI with Windows NT 3.51's kernel. |
Wolfpack | — | Microsoft Cluster Server | |
NT 5.0 | — | Windows 2000 | |
Janus | — | Windows 2000 64-bit | Thurrott, Paul (8 August 2013). "SuperSite Flashback: NT's First Decade". Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows. Penton. Retrieved 10 August 2013. |
Impala | — | Windows NT 4.0 Embedded | |
Neptune | Microsoft Neptune | Dropped | Planned consumer version of Windows 2000, merged with Odyssey to form Whistler. |
Odyssey | — | Dropped | Planned successor to Windows 2000 for business customers, merged with Neptune to form Whistler. |
Whistler | Windows 2001 | Windows XP | Named after Whistler, British Columbia, where design retreats were held. |
Mantis | — | Windows XP Embedded | Named after the Mantis shrimp |
Freestyle | — | Windows XP Media Center Edition | |
Harmony | — | Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 | |
Symphony | — | Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 | |
Emerald | — | Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update Rollup 2 | |
Diamond | — | Windows Media Center | Included in Windows Vista |
Springboard | — | — | Set of enhanced security features, included in Windows XP Service Pack 2. |
Lonestar | — | Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 | |
Whistler Server | Windows Server 2002, Windows .NET Server |
Windows Server 2003 | |
Bobcat | — | Windows Small Business Server 2003 | Not to be confused with Microsoft Bob. |
Eiger, Mönch | — | Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs | Mönch included additional features for use on mobile devices. |
Longhorn | — | Windows Vista | Went gold (RTM) on 8 of November 2006. Named after the Longhorn Bar in the Whistler-Blackcomb resort; initially planned as an "interim release" between "Whistler" and "Blackcomb" (which was "Vienna" and is now Windows 7). |
Q, Quattro | — | Windows Home Server | |
Vail | — | Windows Home Server 2011 | |
Longhorn Server | — | Windows Server 2008 | |
Cougar | — | Windows Small Business Server 2008 | |
Centro | — | Windows Essential Business Server | |
Blackcomb | Vienna | Windows 7 | Blackcomb is named after Blackcomb of Whistler-Blackcomb, BC, Canada. Vienna is the capital of Austria. |
Fiji | Windows Vista Media Center Feature Pack 2008 | Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008 | |
Aurora | — | Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials | |
Quebec | — | Windows Embedded 2011 | |
Windows Server 8 | — | Windows Server 2012 | |
Blue | — | Windows 8.1 | |
Threshold | — | Windows 10 | Named after a location seen in Halo: Combat Evolved, near which Installation O4 orbits. |
Redstone | — | Windows 10 (2016 builds) | Named after a mineral seen in Minecraft. |
Windows CE family
Codename | Preliminary name | Final name | Ref |
---|---|---|---|
Pegasus, Alder | Windows CE 1.0 | ||
Birch | Windows CE 2.0 | ||
Cedar | Windows CE 3.0 | ||
Talisker | Windows CE .NET | Windows CE 4.0 | |
Jameson | Windows CE 4.1 | ||
McKendric | Windows CE 4.2 | ||
Macallan | Windows CE 5.0 | ||
Yamazaki | Windows CE 6.0 | Windows Embedded CE 6.0 | |
Chelan | Windows Embedded CE 7 | Windows Embedded Compact 7 |
Windows Phone
Codename | Preliminary name | Final name | Ref |
---|---|---|---|
Photon | Windows Mobile 7 Series | Windows Phone 7 | |
Mango | Windows Phone 7.5 | ||
Apollo | Windows Phone 8 | ||
Blue | Windows Phone 8.1 |
Others
Codename | Preliminary name | Final name | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
Midori | TBA | A managed code operating system being developed by Microsoft with joint effort of Microsoft Research. | ||
Red Dog | Windows Cloud, Windows Azure | Microsoft Azure | Microsoft cloud services platform | |
Singularity | Singularity | Experimental operating system based on the Microsoft .NET platform, using software-based type safety as a replacement for hardware-based memory protection. | ||
Tahiti | — | Supposedly a family of multi-core technologies including an operating system, applications and development tools designed to make better use of today's multi-core CPUs. Midori may be a part of this suite of new Microsoft technologies. | ||
Zurich | .NET Services | Part of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform, that focuses on extended software development based on .NET Framework to the cloud. |
OS components
Codename | Preliminary name | Final name | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
Code Integrity Rooting | Secure Startup | BitLocker | A security feature that checks and validates the integrity of Windows boot and system components. | |
Continuum | Tablet Mode | TBA | A Windows 10 feature that enables hybrid devices to switch between tablet mode and desktop mode. An immediately manifest effect is the Start screen getting maximized in tablet mode. | |
Cornerstone | Secure Startup | BitLocker | Full disk encryption feature introduced in Windows Vista and present in subsequent versions that utilizes the Trusted Platform Module to perform integrity checking prior to operating system startup. | |
Cortana | Cortana | An intelligent personal assistant included with Windows 10, named after an artificial intelligence character in Halo | ||
Cougar | VMM32 | 32-bit kernel | ||
Darwin | Microsoft Installer | Windows Installer | A Windows service and application programming interface for installing software on computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems | |
Frosting | Windows 95 codename | Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 | ||
Hydra | Terminal Services, Windows Terminal Server | Terminal Server adds "multiheading" support to Windows (the ability to run multiple instances of the graphics subsystem), and the hydra is a mythological monster with multiple heads. | ||
Jaguar | — | 16-bit DOS kernel for Windows 95 based on MS-DOS 5.0, used by Windows 95 boot loader and compatibility layer. | ||
Jupiter | Windows Runtime | A new application framework on Windows 8 used to create cross-platform "immersive" apps. | ||
Monad | MSH, Microsoft Shell | Windows PowerShell | "Monads", according to philosopher Gottfried Leibniz's monadology, are the ultimate elements of the universe, individual percipient beings, and MSH is similarly composed of small, individual modules the user puts in interrelation. | |
Morro | Microsoft Security Essentials | MSE was codenamed after the Morro de São Paulo beach in Brazil. | ||
O'Hare | Internet Explorer 1 | Internet Explorer 1, first shipped in Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95: The codename O'Hare ties into the Chicago codename for Windows 95: O'Hare International Airport is the largest airport in the city of Chicago, Illinois — in Microsoft's words, "a point of departure to distant places from Chicago". | ||
Panther | — | Cancelled. Panther was a 32-bit kernel based on Windows NT kernel. | ||
Pinball | High Performance File System (HPFS) | "Pinball" is the nickname (as opposed to a codename) for HPFS because HPFS driver in Windows NT 3.5 is called PINBALL.SYS. | ||
Protogon | ReFS | The successor of NTFS | ||
Spartan | Microsoft Edge | Web browser for Windows 10 that does away with MSHTML rendering engine. Refers to Spartans in Halo. | ||
Stimpy | Windows Shell | Applies to Windows 95 only. | ||
Viridian | Hyper-V | Virtualization update for Windows Server 2008 | ||
WinFS | — | A cancelled data storage and management system project based on relational databases, first demonstrated in 2003 as an advanced storage subsystem for the Microsoft Windows, designed for persistence and management of structured, semi-structured as well as unstructured data. |
Microsoft Servers
SQL Server family
Codename | Final name | Notes | Ref |
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SQLNT | SQL Server 4.21 | ||
SQL95 | SQL Server 6.0 | ||
Hydra | SQL Server 6.5 | ||
Sphinx | SQL Server 7.0 | ||
Plato | OLAP Services 7.0 | "OLAP Services" was later renamed Microsoft Analysis Services | |
Shiloh | SQL Server 2000 | Version 8 | |
Rosetta | Reporting Services in SQL Server 2000 | ||
Yukon | SQL Server 2005 | Version 9 | |
Picasso | Analysis Services in SQL Server 2005 | ||
Katmai / Akadia | SQL Server 2008 | Version 10 | |
Kilimanjaro | SQL Server 2008 R2 | Version 10.5 | |
Blue | SQL Server 2008 Report Designer 2.0 | This is the standalone release of the tool for Reporting Services. It must not be confused with Report Builder 2.0. | |
Denali | SQL Server 2012 | Version 11 | |
Juneau | SQL Server Data Tools | Will be included in the next CTP of SQL Server "Denali" | |
Crescent | Power View | A data visualisation tool that will be included in SQL Server "Denali" | |
Hekaton | SQL Server In-Memory OLTP | In-memory database engine built into SQL Server 2014 |
Others
Codename | Final name | Ref |
---|---|---|
Hermes | Microsoft System Management Server 1.0 | |
Catapult | Microsoft Proxy Server 1.0 | |
Geneva | Active Directory Federation Services | |
Falcon | Microsoft Message Queue Server | |
Viper | Microsoft Transaction Server | |
Stirling | Microsoft Forefront Protection Suite |
Developers tools
Visual Studio family
Codename | Preliminary name | Final name | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
Thunder | Visual Basic 1.0 | The first version of Visual Basic. The standard dialogs and controls created by the Visual Basic runtime library all have "Thunder" as a prefix of their internal type names (for example, buttons are internally known as ThunderCommandButton). | ||
Zamboni | Microsoft Visual C++ 4.1 | After Zamboni, an ice resurfacing machine. | ||
Boston | Microsoft Visual Studio 97 | Named for Boston, Massachusetts | ||
Aspen | Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 | Named after the popular ski destination Aspen, Colorado | ||
Cassini Web Server | ASP.NET Development Server | The lightweight local Web server that is launched in Visual Studio in order to test Web projects | ||
Hatteras | Visual Studio Team System's Source Control System | — | Named after the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in the Outer Banks region of North Carolina | |
Ocracoke | Visual Studio Team System load testing suite | — | Named after the Ocracoke Island Lighthouse on Ocracoke Island, also in North Carolina | |
Currituck | Team Foundation Work Item Tracking | — | Named after the Currituck Beach Lighthouse in Corolla, North Carolina | |
Bodie | Team Foundation Server SDK | — | Named after the Bodie Island Lighthouse in North Carolina | |
Tuscany | Online version of Visual Studio. | Currently a research project | ||
Phoenix | — | A Microsoft research software development kit | ||
Eaglestone | Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere | This is the name given to the Teamprise suite Microsoft acquired. The product is now named Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere | ||
KittyHawk | Visual Studio LightSwitch | RAD tool aimed at non-programmers | ||
Rainier | Visual Studio .NET (2002) | Named for Mount Rainier, a volcanic mountain peak visible from the Seattle area (where Microsoft is based) | ||
Everett | Visual Studio .NET 2003 | Named after the town Everett, Washington in Washington state | ||
Whidbey | Visual Studio 2005 | Named after Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound | ||
Orcas | Visual Studio 2008 | Named after Orcas Island in the Puget Sound | ||
Camano | Microsoft Test and Lab Manager | Microsoft Test Manager, a part of Visual Studio 2010 Test Professional, Premium and Ultimate editions | Named after Camano Island in the Puget Sound | |
Rosario | Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 (formerly Team System or Team Suite) | |||
Cider | — | Visual Studio designer for building Windows Presentation Foundation applications, meant to be used by application developers | ||
Monaco | TBA | In-browser IDE for Visual Studio |
.NET Framework family
Codename | Preliminary name | Final name | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
Lightning, Project 42 | Next Generation Windows Services | Microsoft .NET v1.0 | Project Lightning was the original codename for the Common Language Runtime in 1997. The team was based in building 42, hence Project 42. "Next Generation Windows Services" appeared in the earliest press releases about the upcoming platform. | |
Roslyn | Next Generation C# compiler | .NET Compiler Platform | Roslyn is the next generation of design guidelines for developer tools, which is often highlighted by a C# compiler being written in C# (currently it is C++) and being offered as a service. This would enable scenarios like C# having its own version of the JavaScript eval command ultimately leading to meta-programming. Mono has had a similar feature since early on its life. | |
Project 7 | — | Codename for early .net academic recruiting program. 7 was a prime factor of 42. | ||
Astoria | WCF Data Services | Enables the creation and consumption of OData services for the web | ||
Fusion | — | .NET Framework subsystem for locating and loading assemblies, including GAC management | ||
Atlas | ASP.NET AJAX | An implementation for ASP.NET of Ajax native to .NET Framework 2.0 | ||
Avalon | Windows Presentation Foundation | Graphical subsystem released as part of .NET Framework 3.0 | ||
Indigo | Windows Communication Foundation | An application programming interface (API) in .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications |
Silverlight family
Codename | Preliminary name | Final name | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jolt | Silverlight 1.0 | |||
Paxos | Silverlight 1.1 |
Languages
Codename | Preliminary name | Final name | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
Clarity | Language Integrated Query (LINQ) | LINQ Language extensions to expose query syntax natively to languages such as Visual Basic .NET and C# | ||
D | M | Modelling language | ||
Jakarta | Visual J++ | |||
Metro | Microsoft Design language | A typography-based design language |
Runtime libraries
Codename | Preliminary name | Final name | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
Godot | Microsoft Layer for Unicode | Named after the play Waiting for Godot (centered around the endless wait for a man named "Godot" who never comes), because it was felt to be long overdue. | ||
Omega | JET Engine | ISAM database engine used in Microsoft Access (a desktop database management system) and made available as a generic database access API | ||
Jasper | — | Jasper provides a data programming interface for rapid application development. When a Jasper program runs, Jasper connects to the database, determines the database schema, and generates corresponding data classes. This generation step does not occur in source files; rather, the data classes are compiled in memory and are only available for use within the running program. | ||
Volta | — | A developer toolset for building multi-tier web applications |
Gaming hardware
Codename | Preliminary name(s) | Final name | Notes | Ref |
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DirectX Box | DirectX Box | Xbox | The original codename for the Xbox. | |
Natal | Kinect | Motion sensitive control system. | ||
Xenon | Xbox 2 | Xbox 360 | ||
Durango | Xbox One | Successor to Xbox 360 |
Office software
Codename | Preliminary name | Final name | Notes | Ref |
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Albany | Microsoft Equipt | Microsoft's all-in-one, subscription-based service for office, communication, and security software | ||
Bandit | Schedule+ 1.0 | Microsoft's first Personal Information Manager | ||
Budapest | Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access 2005 | |||
Bullet | Microsoft Mail 3.0 | Microsoft's first LAN-based email product written in-house | ||
Cirrus | Microsoft Access 1.0 | |||
CRM V1.0, Tsunami | Microsoft CRM version 1.0 | The platform was initially codenamed Tsunami, but once the decision was made to make it an actual product it was just changed to the initials as the initials were enough of a codename. | ||
Danube Phase I | Microsoft CRM version 1.2 | |||
Danube Phase II | Microsoft CRM version 3 | |||
Deco | Microsoft PhotoDraw | |||
Greenwich | Real-Time Communications Server 2003 | Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003 | ||
Istanbul | Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 | |||
Maestro | Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 | |||
Opus | Word for Windows v1.0 for Windows 2.x | |||
Oslo | Microsoft BizTalk Server SOA, SQL Server Modeling CTP | — | Set of Service-oriented architecture (SOA) technologies | |
Tahiti | Microsoft SharedView | — | A screen sharing tool which allows users to take over sessions and interact with remote desktops. No audio or conference facilities. | |
Tahoe | Sharepoint Portal Server 2001 | |||
Kilimanjaro | Titan | Microsoft CRM version 4 | Was originally Kilimanjaro but changed to Titan, as Kilimanjaro was too difficult to spell | |
Utopia | Microsoft Bob | Intended to be a user-friendly GUI | ||
Ren, Stimpy | Wren | Microsoft Outlook | "Stimpy" was merged into "Ren", which later became "Wren". "Ren" and "Stimpy" are references to Ren and Stimpy, characters of an American animated television series. "Wren", a homophone of "Ren", is a reference to Christopher Wren, the architect of St Paul's Cathedral. |
Other codenames
Codename | Preliminary name | Final name | Notes | Ref |
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Acropolis | — | Application framework for Smart Clients | ||
Aero Diamond | — | Used during the development of Windows Vista to describe a set of advanced user interface effects for the Desktop Window Manager to be introduced after Vista's release | ||
Alexandria | Zune Marketplace | An online music store | ||
Argo | Zune | A digital media player | ||
Atlanta | — | A cloud service that monitors Microsoft SQL Server deployments | ||
Blackbird | — | An online content-authoring platform centered around the concept of distributed Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) and meant to be an alternative to HTML. The developer tools were originally released in beta and some titles were made available on MSDN before it was scrapped in favor of web development around ASP and ActiveX and the designer was refashioned into Visual InterDev. | ||
Concur | — | Aims to: define higher-level abstractions (above "threads and locks"); for today's imperative languages; that evenly support the range of concurrency granularities; to let developers write correct and efficient concurrent applications; with lots of latent parallelism; that can be efficiently mapped to the user's. | ||
Dallas | — | Aims to help discover, purchase and manage, premium data subscriptions in the Windows Azure platform | ||
Dorado | Zune PC Client | |||
Dryad | — | A Microsoft Research project which aims to design a platform to make developing applications for large-scale distributed computing easier. | ||
HailStorm | .NET My Services | Collection of web services centered around the storage and retrieval of information. Cancelled before it could fully materialize. | ||
Kumo | Bing | Microsoft's set of features improving Live Search search engine | ||
Marvel | The Microsoft Network | The classic version of MSN, originally as a proprietary, "walled garden" online service | ||
Media2Go | Windows Mobile software for Portable Media Centers | Platform built on Windows Mobile found on portable media players | ||
Metro | XML Paper Specification (XPS) | |||
Milan | Surface | Microsoft PixelSense | Table-top style computer with multi-touch touchscreen interface | |
Mira | — | Windows CE .NET-based technology for smart displays | ||
Monaco | — | Music-making program similar to Apple GarageBand application | ||
Origami | Ultra-Mobile PC | |||
Palladium | Trusted Windows | — | Effort to develop a small, very secure operating environment within Windows, including curtained memory, trusted input, and graphics. Project renamed to Next-Generation Secure Computing Base, and was never fully implemented. | |
Softsled | — | Software based Windows Media Center Extender | ||
Springfield | Microsoft Popfly | — | Website in Alpha testing stage providing mashup and webpages creation tools, with publishing as Rich Internet Application option | |
Wolverine | TCP/IP stack for Windows for Workgroups 3.11 | Named after the Wolverine, a character from Marvel Comics. |
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