The most familiar Windows codename to us is probably Longhorn. The codename is used to name Windows during the pre-beta development stage, equivalent to the "nickname" of Windows.
This is a list of previous Windows release versions and their codenames:
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┃Codename ┃ Windows ┃ Version ┃
┣━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━╋━━━━━┫
┃Janus (希腊两面神) ┃3.1 ┃3.1 ┃
┃Chicago (芝加哥) ┃95 ┃4.0 ┃
┃Memphis (曼菲斯) ┃98 ┃4.1 ┃
┃Millennium (千禧年) ┃ME ┃4.9.3000 ┃
┃NT5 (听说这并不是真的) ┃2000 ┃5.0.2195 ┃
┃Whistler (维斯勒) ┃XP ┃5.1.2600 ┃
┃Whistler Server ┃Sever 2003 ┃5.2.3700 ┃
┃Longhorn (长牛角) ┃Vista ┃6.0 (估计)┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━┻━━━━━┛
Windows Pre-9x:
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Windows 1.x (Codename: Inerface Manager)
Windows 3.1 (Codename: Janus)
Windows For Workgroups 3.11(Codename: Snowball)
Windows 9x:
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Windows 95 (Codename: Chicago)
Windows 96 (Codename: Nashville)
Windows 97 (Codename: Detroit)
Windows 98 First/Second Edition (Codename: Memphis)
Windows Millenneum Edition (Codename: Georgia)
Windows NT:
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Windows NT 3.1 (Codename: OS/2 3.0)
Windows NT 3.5 (Codename: Daytona)
Windows NT 4.0 (Codename: Cairo、SUR)
Windows NT 5.0 (Windows 2000) (Codename: NONE)
Windows NT 5.1 (Windows XP) (Codename: Whistler)
Windows NT 5.2 (Windows Server 2003) (Codename: Whistler; .NET)
Windows NT 6.0 (WindowsVista)(Codename: Longhorn)
Some people might ask: What about Windows 1? That's because the person who made this list thinks the real Windows started from version 3.1, and the previous ones can only be regarded as GUI programs under DOS, heh, it's indeed like that.
We see that the codename of Windows 3.1 is: Janus, Janus, also translated as Janus, he is the door god of the ancient Romans, not the Shenshu Yulei we paste on our own doors, but the huge god set up at the city gates by the ancient Romans to bless travelers going out and soldiers going on a campaign. He is in charge of the entry and exit of doors and water and land transportation. The most terrifying thing is he has two faces, so now in medicine, it is used as the noun of double联体, these two faces are not for scaring people, they each have uses, one looks forward, one looks to the future. Microsoft using Janus as the codename, probably just wanting to take a good omen of "carrying forward and opening up" from him.
The codenames of the following Windows 95 and Windows 98 are Chicago (Chicago) and Memphis (Memphis) respectively, I think there's nothing much to say, both are cities in the US. If anyone knows any "gossip", feel free to add.
After developing Windows 98, Microsoft originally planned to develop an operating system with the codename "Neptune" (Neptune, god of the sea, equivalent to Poseidon in Greek mythology) after Windows 98, but Microsoft quickly shifted to the development of NT, so we see that the codename of the above Windows 2000 is the imaginary NT5. Actually Microsoft once wanted to use the codename "Odyssey" (Odyssey is both the name of the ancient Greek navigation hero and a very famous science fiction novel, from the eponymous work "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur Clarke, the father of synchronous satellites, symbolizing human's voyage to beyond the solar system, this novel was later adapted into a timeless movie by the great director Kubrick. Estimated Microsoft thought Pluto and comets beyond Neptune were unlucky, so thought of such a name. However, the development results of "Odyssey" and "Neptune" were eventually incorporated into Windows XP. And Windows XP Media Center Edition also has a very meaningful codename, called "Freestyle" - free style.
When we talk about Windows XP, we will think of Whistler, although its icon is indeed a "whistling person", just like the icon of Longhorn is a long-horned ox head (it is said this creative idea comes from the sculpture "Ox" by that bad Picasso guy - just a bicycle handlebar inserted in a bicycle seat, I do think so!), but whether the whistler or the long horn are not their original meanings. What are their original meanings? Wait a minute.
Leave a suspense first, although Vista hasn't been released, let's first look forward to the future Windows. According to online information, the codename of the next developing Windows is called Blackcomb, black comb....-___-b What kind of names these are, ha ha, never mind. Let's go to Google to google "Whistler Blackcomb", did you find? This is actually a skiing resort! I never found this secret before (although I had long heard of the great name of Blackcomb). Last time when an engineer from Microsoft gave a lecture in our school, I dragged him to ask this question, he just smiled and told us this little inside story.
Originally Whistler Blackcomb is a skiing resort in Canada, it's a few hours' drive from the Seattle where Microsoft's headquarters are located, naturally those rascals in Microsoft's headquarters often go there to have fun. So they simply took these two adjacent skiing mountains as the codenames of two connected Windows, so Whistler safely became Windows XP running on our computers, and Microsoft also gave up the NT naming method, the codename of Windows 2003 Server is called Whistler Server. But what about Blackcomb? BlackComb was originally developed as the next generation system of Windows XP, that is to say originally Blackcomb should be the current Vista, but due to some political and commercial reasons, it has been delayed to be in place. In order not to make the product line interrupted, Microsoft had to take out a transitional version first. What is this transitional version called? We all know, it's Longhrorn. Longhorn is actually the name of a small post, that engineer from Microsoft said, "very small, just a place for passers-by to rest", then why does it get into the mountain ranks? Very simple, because it is on the only way from Whistler Snow Mountain to Blackcomb Snow Mountain.
Heh, left a lot of suspense, the mystery actually has nothing. Well, the gossip of the codenames of Microsoft's previous Windows ends here, let's together look forward to the official release of Vista.
For more details, please see here: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Microsoft_codenames
This is a list of previous Windows release versions and their codenames:
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━┳━━━━━┓
┃Codename ┃ Windows ┃ Version ┃
┣━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━╋━━━━━┫
┃Janus (希腊两面神) ┃3.1 ┃3.1 ┃
┃Chicago (芝加哥) ┃95 ┃4.0 ┃
┃Memphis (曼菲斯) ┃98 ┃4.1 ┃
┃Millennium (千禧年) ┃ME ┃4.9.3000 ┃
┃NT5 (听说这并不是真的) ┃2000 ┃5.0.2195 ┃
┃Whistler (维斯勒) ┃XP ┃5.1.2600 ┃
┃Whistler Server ┃Sever 2003 ┃5.2.3700 ┃
┃Longhorn (长牛角) ┃Vista ┃6.0 (估计)┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━┻━━━━━┛
Windows Pre-9x:
===============
Windows 1.x (Codename: Inerface Manager)
Windows 3.1 (Codename: Janus)
Windows For Workgroups 3.11(Codename: Snowball)
Windows 9x:
===========
Windows 95 (Codename: Chicago)
Windows 96 (Codename: Nashville)
Windows 97 (Codename: Detroit)
Windows 98 First/Second Edition (Codename: Memphis)
Windows Millenneum Edition (Codename: Georgia)
Windows NT:
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Windows NT 3.1 (Codename: OS/2 3.0)
Windows NT 3.5 (Codename: Daytona)
Windows NT 4.0 (Codename: Cairo、SUR)
Windows NT 5.0 (Windows 2000) (Codename: NONE)
Windows NT 5.1 (Windows XP) (Codename: Whistler)
Windows NT 5.2 (Windows Server 2003) (Codename: Whistler; .NET)
Windows NT 6.0 (WindowsVista)(Codename: Longhorn)
Some people might ask: What about Windows 1? That's because the person who made this list thinks the real Windows started from version 3.1, and the previous ones can only be regarded as GUI programs under DOS, heh, it's indeed like that.
We see that the codename of Windows 3.1 is: Janus, Janus, also translated as Janus, he is the door god of the ancient Romans, not the Shenshu Yulei we paste on our own doors, but the huge god set up at the city gates by the ancient Romans to bless travelers going out and soldiers going on a campaign. He is in charge of the entry and exit of doors and water and land transportation. The most terrifying thing is he has two faces, so now in medicine, it is used as the noun of double联体, these two faces are not for scaring people, they each have uses, one looks forward, one looks to the future. Microsoft using Janus as the codename, probably just wanting to take a good omen of "carrying forward and opening up" from him.
The codenames of the following Windows 95 and Windows 98 are Chicago (Chicago) and Memphis (Memphis) respectively, I think there's nothing much to say, both are cities in the US. If anyone knows any "gossip", feel free to add.
After developing Windows 98, Microsoft originally planned to develop an operating system with the codename "Neptune" (Neptune, god of the sea, equivalent to Poseidon in Greek mythology) after Windows 98, but Microsoft quickly shifted to the development of NT, so we see that the codename of the above Windows 2000 is the imaginary NT5. Actually Microsoft once wanted to use the codename "Odyssey" (Odyssey is both the name of the ancient Greek navigation hero and a very famous science fiction novel, from the eponymous work "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur Clarke, the father of synchronous satellites, symbolizing human's voyage to beyond the solar system, this novel was later adapted into a timeless movie by the great director Kubrick. Estimated Microsoft thought Pluto and comets beyond Neptune were unlucky, so thought of such a name. However, the development results of "Odyssey" and "Neptune" were eventually incorporated into Windows XP. And Windows XP Media Center Edition also has a very meaningful codename, called "Freestyle" - free style.
When we talk about Windows XP, we will think of Whistler, although its icon is indeed a "whistling person", just like the icon of Longhorn is a long-horned ox head (it is said this creative idea comes from the sculpture "Ox" by that bad Picasso guy - just a bicycle handlebar inserted in a bicycle seat, I do think so!), but whether the whistler or the long horn are not their original meanings. What are their original meanings? Wait a minute.
Leave a suspense first, although Vista hasn't been released, let's first look forward to the future Windows. According to online information, the codename of the next developing Windows is called Blackcomb, black comb....-___-b What kind of names these are, ha ha, never mind. Let's go to Google to google "Whistler Blackcomb", did you find? This is actually a skiing resort! I never found this secret before (although I had long heard of the great name of Blackcomb). Last time when an engineer from Microsoft gave a lecture in our school, I dragged him to ask this question, he just smiled and told us this little inside story.
Originally Whistler Blackcomb is a skiing resort in Canada, it's a few hours' drive from the Seattle where Microsoft's headquarters are located, naturally those rascals in Microsoft's headquarters often go there to have fun. So they simply took these two adjacent skiing mountains as the codenames of two connected Windows, so Whistler safely became Windows XP running on our computers, and Microsoft also gave up the NT naming method, the codename of Windows 2003 Server is called Whistler Server. But what about Blackcomb? BlackComb was originally developed as the next generation system of Windows XP, that is to say originally Blackcomb should be the current Vista, but due to some political and commercial reasons, it has been delayed to be in place. In order not to make the product line interrupted, Microsoft had to take out a transitional version first. What is this transitional version called? We all know, it's Longhrorn. Longhorn is actually the name of a small post, that engineer from Microsoft said, "very small, just a place for passers-by to rest", then why does it get into the mountain ranks? Very simple, because it is on the only way from Whistler Snow Mountain to Blackcomb Snow Mountain.
Heh, left a lot of suspense, the mystery actually has nothing. Well, the gossip of the codenames of Microsoft's previous Windows ends here, let's together look forward to the official release of Vista.
For more details, please see here: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Microsoft_codenames
