Software Odyssey - SmartPhone

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.

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. [1]

Early Windows versions

Windows NT family

Windows CE family

DirectX family

Visual Studio family

SQL Server family

Experimental operating systems

Others

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