Others
| Codename | Preliminary name | Final name | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |||
| Albany | Microsoft Equipt | Albany is Microsoft's all-in-one, subscription-based service for office, communication, and security software. | ||
| Alexandria | Zune Marketplace | An online music store. | ||
| Argo | Zune | A digital media player. | ||
| Atlanta | A cloud service that monitors Microsoft SQL Server deployments | |||
| Atlas | ASP.NET AJAX | An implementation for ASP.NET of Ajax native to the .NET Framework 2.0. | ||
| Avalon | Windows Presentation Foundation | Graphical subsystem released as part of .NET Framework 3.0. | ||
| Bandit | Schedule+ 1.0 | Microsoft's first Personal Information Manager. | ||
| Blackbird | An online content-authoring platform centered around the concept of distributed OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) and meant to be an alternative to HTML. The developer tools were originally released in beta and some titles were made available on MSN before it was scrapped in favor of web development around ASP and ActiveX and the designer was refashioned into Visual InterDev. | |||
| Marvel | The Microsoft Network | The classic version of MSN, originally as a proprietary, "walled garden" online service. | ||
| Bullet | Microsoft Mail 3.0 | Microsoft's first LAN-based email product written in-house. (Microsoft had earlier purchased Intermail for AppleTalk networks and Network Courier for PC networks.) | ||
| Budapest | Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access 2005 | |||
| Catapult | Microsoft Proxy Server 1.0 | |||
| Cider | Visual Studio designer for building Windows Presentation Foundation applications. Meant to be used by application developers. | |||
| Cirrus | Access 1.0 | |||
| 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. | |||
| CRM V1.0, Tsunami | Microsoft CRM version 1.0 | The platform was initially code named 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 code name. | ||
| D | M | Modelling language | ||
| Dallas | Easily discover, purchase, and manage premium data subscriptions in the Windows Azure platform. | |||
| Darwin | Microsoft Installer | Windows Installer | ||
| Danube Phase I | Microsoft CRM version 1.2 | |||
| Danube Phase II | Microsoft CRM version 3 | |||
| Deco | Microsoft PhotoDraw | |||
| 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. | |||
| Godot | Microsoft Layer for Unicode | Named after the play Waiting for Godot (centered around the failure of a man named "Godot" to appear and the endless wait for him), because it was felt to be long overdue. | ||
| Greenwich | Real-Time Communications Server 2003 | Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003 | ||
| Indigo | Windows Communication Foundation | An application programming interface (API) in the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications | ||
| Istanbul | Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 | |||
| Kumo | Bing | Microsoft's set of features improving Live Search search engine | ||
| Clarity | LINQ | Language Integrated Query Language extensions to expose query syntax natively to languages such as Visual Basic .NET and C# | ||
| Maestro | Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005. | |||
| 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 | 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's GarageBand application | |||
| 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. | ||
| Origami | Ultra-Mobile PC | |||
| Omega | JET Engine | ISAM database engine used in Microsoft Access, a desktop database management system. | ||
| Opus | Word for Windows | Word for Windows 1.0 for Windows 2.x. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Pinball | High Performance File System | Implemented as an Installable File System when IBM and Microsoft were co developing OS/2. | ||
| Volta | C# to JavaScript compiler. | |||
| Softsled | Software based Media Center Extender. | |||
| Springfield | Microsoft Popfly | Website in Alpha testing stage providing mashup and webpages creation tools, with publishing as Rich Internet Application option. | ||
| 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. It is believed that Midori may be a part of this suite of new Microsoft 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. | |||
| Titan, Kilimanjaro | Microsoft CRM version 4 | Was originally Kilimanjaro but changed to Titan as Kilimanjaro was too difficult to spell. | ||
| Jakarta | Visual J++ | |||
| Jasper | “Jasper” provides a programming interface to your data that is well-suited to rapid 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 result in source files; the data classes are compiled in-memory and available for use within the running program. | |||
| Jolt | Silverlight 1.0 | |||
| Paxos | Silverlight 1.1 | |||
| Wolverine | TCP/IP Stack for WfW 3.11 | Named after the Wolverine the character from Marvel Comics. | ||
| Oslo | set of SOA - technologies | http://www.microsoft.com/soa/products/oslo.aspx | ||
| Velocity | Distributed Caching for .NET | |||
| Zurich | Azure | Microsoft's Cloud computing platform (See Azure Services Platform) | ||
| Metro | Windows Phone 7 user interface, largely based on Zune HD | |||
| Mango | Windows Phone 7.5 | Windows Phone 7, largely based on Zune HD |
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