Microsoft codenames are given by
Microsoft
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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
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for ...
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
codename
A code name, call sign or cryptonym is a code word or name used, sometimes clandestinely, to refer to another name, word, project, or person. Code names are often used for military purposes, or in espionage. They may also be used in industrial c ...
s 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 to avoid needing product codenames.
Operating systems
Windows 3.x and 9x
Windows NT family
Windows as a Service engineering milestones
The following are code names used for internal
sprints of the Windows core, although they are not necessarily the code names of any of the resulting releases. The semester designations are also formally independent of the version numbers used by the releases themselves, although with some exceptions they usually match.
Windows CE family
Windows Mobile
Windows Phone
Others
OS components
Microsoft Servers
SQL Server family
Others
Developers tools
Visual Studio
Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs including websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such ...
family
.NET Framework family
Languages
Others
Gaming hardware
Office software
Other codenames
References
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External links
Microsoft Codenames List
Codenames
Code names
Computing terminology