List of Microsoft codenames

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Microsoft codenames are 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 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 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 to avoid needing product codenames.[1]

Operating systems[]

Windows 3.x and 9x[]

Codename Preliminary name Final name Notes Ref
Janus N/A Windows & MS-DOS 5 Combined bundle of Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 5. [2]
Sparta, Winball Windows 3.1 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. [3][4]
Snowball N/A Windows for Workgroups 3.11 This release was a mixture of a 32 bit kernel, supporting 32 bit device drivers, and 16-bit Windows for the upper OS layers. 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. [5]
Chicago Windows 4.0, Windows 93, Windows 94 Windows 95 For codenames of some of the internal components of Windows 95, see "Jaguar", "Cougar", "Panther" and "Stimpy" under § OS components. [6][7]
Detroit N/A 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. [8]
Nashville Windows 96 Dropped Named after Nashville. 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. [9][10]
Memphis Windows 97 Windows 98 N/A [11][12]
Millennium N/A Windows Me ME stands for Millennium Edition; Microsoft states that it is pronounced Me. [13]

Windows NT family[]

Codename Preliminary name Final name Notes Ref
Razzle NT OS/2, Advanced Windows Windows NT 3.1 Is also the name of a script that sets up the Windows NT development environment. [14][15][16][17]
Daytona N/A Windows NT 3.5 Named after the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. [18]
Cairo N/A Dropped A cancelled project that would have fulfilled Bill Gates' "Information at your fingertips" vision. [19]
Shell Update Release N/A Windows NT 4.0 N/A
Wolfpack N/A Microsoft Cluster Server N/A [20]
N/A Windows NT 5.0 Windows 2000 Windows 2000 did not have a codename because, according to Dave Thompson of Windows NT team, "Jim Allchin didn't like codenames". [21][22]
Janus N/A Windows 2000 64-bit
Impala N/A Windows NT 4.0 Embedded N/A [23]
Neptune N/A Dropped Planned to be a major upgrade for Windows 2000 and Windows 98 (later Windows Me), merged with Odyssey to form Whistler. [24]
Triton N/A Dropped A planned minor update to "Neptune".
Odyssey N/A Dropped Planned to be a major upgrade for "Neptune" and "Triton", merged with Neptune to form Whistler.
Whistler N/A Windows XP Named after Whistler Blackcomb, where design retreats were held.
Mantis N/A Windows XP Embedded Named after the Mantis shrimp. [23]
Freestyle N/A Windows XP Media Center Edition N/A [25][26]
Harmony N/A Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 N/A [27]
Symphony N/A Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 N/A [28]
Emerald N/A Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update Rollup 2 N/A [29]
Diamond N/A Windows Media Center Included with Windows Vista. [29]
Springboard N/A N/A Set of enhanced security features, included in Windows XP Service Pack 2. [30]
Lonestar N/A Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 N/A [31]
Whistler Server Windows 2002 Server,
Windows .NET Server,
Windows .NET Server 2003 		Windows Server 2003 N/A [32][33]
Bobcat N/A Windows Small Business Server 2003 Not to be confused with Microsoft Bob. [34]
Eiger, Mönch N/A Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs Mönch included additional features for use on mobile devices. [35][36]
Longhorn N/A Windows Vista Named after the Longhorn Bar in the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort; initially planned as a "minor release" between "Whistler" and "Blackcomb" (see below) [37][38][39]
Blackcomb, Vienna N/A Dropped The purported successor to Whistler, and later, Longhorn. Named after Whistler Blackcomb, where design retreats were held. Blackcomb was later renamed to Vienna in January 2006, named after the capital of Austria. Eventually cancelled and replaced by Windows 7. [40][41]
Q, Quattro N/A Windows Home Server N/A [42][43]
Vail N/A Windows Home Server 2011 N/A [44]
Longhorn Server N/A Windows Server 2008 N/A [45]
Cougar N/A Windows Small Business Server 2008 N/A [46]
Centro N/A Windows Essential Business Server Named after the Spanish translation of the word "center". [46]
Windows 7 N/A Windows 7 The number 7 comes from the internal version number of Windows Vista incremented by one. [40][47][48]
Fiji Windows Vista Media Center Feature Pack 2008 Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008 Named after the country of Fiji. [49]
Aurora N/A Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials N/A [50]
Quebec N/A Windows Embedded Standard 7 N/A [51]
Windows Server 8 N/A Windows Server 2012 N/A [52]
Windows 8 N/A Windows 8 N/A
Blue N/A Windows 8.1 N/A [53]
Threshold N/A Windows 10 (RTM)
Windows 10 November Update 		Named after a location seen in Halo: Combat Evolved, near which Installation 04 orbits. [54]
Redstone N/A Windows 10 Anniversary Update
Windows 10 Creators Update
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Windows 10 April 2018 Update
Windows 10 October 2018 Update 		Named after a fictional mineral from Minecraft. [55][56]
Santorini Windows 10X Dropped Named after an island in Greece. Originally supposed to be a new OS to be released mid-late 2021, was eventually canceled. Some of its features were integrated into Windows 11 and other products. [57]
Titanium N/A Windows 10 May 2019 Update Named after the chemical element in the periodic table. Titanium is also the name of the 19H1 development semester. [58][59]
Vanadium N/A Windows 10 November 2019 Update Named after the chemical element in the periodic table. Vanadium is also the name of the 19H2 development semester. [58][60][61]
Vibranium N/A Windows 10 May 2020 Update
Windows 10 October 2020 Update
Windows 10 May 2021 Update 		Named after the fictional metal Vibranium in Marvel Comics as continuing the previous line of chemical elements with Chromium was could have caused confusion with the web browser project. Vibranium is also the name of the 20H1 development semester. [58][62][63]
Manganese N/A N/A Named after the chemical element in the periodic table. Manganese is the name for the 20H2 development semester, builds from which were only released to the fast ring of the Insider program. [64]
Iron N/A N/A Named after the chemical element in the periodic table. Iron is the name for the 21H1 development semester, builds from which were released to the Dev Channel as well as form the base of Windows Server 2022. [65]
Cobalt N/A N/A Named after the chemical element in the periodic table. Cobalt is the name for the 21H2 development semester, builds from which were released to the Dev Channel as well as form the base of Windows 11.
Sun Valley N/A Windows 11 (RTM) Named after Sun Valley, Idaho. [66][67][68][69]
Nickel N/A TBA Named after the chemical element in the periodic table. Nickel is the name for the 22H1 development semester, builds from which were released to the Dev Channel. [70]

Windows CE family[]

Codename Preliminary name Final name Ref
Pegasus, Alder N/A Windows CE 1.0 [71]
Birch N/A Windows CE 2.0 [71]
Cedar N/A Windows CE 3.0 [71]
Talisker Windows CE .NET Windows CE 4.0 [71]
Jameson N/A Windows CE 4.1 [72]
McKendric N/A Windows CE 4.2 [72]
Macallan N/A Windows CE 5.0 [71]
Yamazaki Windows CE 6.0 Windows Embedded CE 6.0 [71][72]
Chelan Windows Embedded CE 7 Windows Embedded Compact 7 [73]

Windows Mobile[]

Codename Preliminary name Final name Ref
Rapier N/A Pocket PC 2000 [74]
Merlin N/A Pocket PC 2002 [74]
Ozone N/A Windows Mobile 2003 [74]
Magneto N/A Windows Mobile 5 [74]
Crossbow N/A Windows Mobile 6 [74]
6 on 6 N/A Windows Mobile 6.1.4 [74]
Titanium N/A Windows Mobile 6.5 [74]
Maldives Windows Mobile 7 Windows Phone 7 [74]

Windows Phone[]

Codename Preliminary name Final name Ref
Photon Windows Mobile 7 Series Windows Phone 7 [75][76]
Mango N/A Windows Phone 7.5 [77][78]
Apollo N/A Windows Phone 8 [78]
Blue N/A Windows Phone 8.1 [54]
Threshold N/A Windows 10 Mobile [54]

Others[]

Codename Preliminary name Final name Notes Ref
Midori N/A TBA A managed code operating system being developed by Microsoft with joint effort of Microsoft Research. [79][80]
Red Dog Windows Cloud, Windows Azure Microsoft Azure Microsoft cloud services platform [81]
Singularity N/A Singularity Experimental operating system based on the Microsoft .NET platform, using software-based type safety as a replacement for hardware-based memory protection. [82]
Tahiti N/A N/A 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. [83]
Tokyo Azure AD Cloud App Discovery Cloud App Discovery Azure-based data-directory service designed to help connect the right people to the right data. [84]
Zurich N/A .NET Services Part of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform, that focuses on extended software development based on .NET Framework to the cloud. [81][85][86]

OS components[]

Codename Preliminary name Final name Notes Ref
Anaheim N/A Microsoft Edge A rewrite of Microsoft's web browser, based on the Chromium project. [87]
Barcelona N/A Windows Defender Application Guard A security feature for running the Microsoft Edge web browser inside a virtual machine, thus isolating it from the rest of the system in the event that it was hacked. [88]
Beihai Paint 3D 3D version of Microsoft Paint [89]
Code Integrity Rooting Secure Startup BitLocker A security feature that checks and validates the integrity of Windows boot and system components. [90][91]
Continuum Tablet Mode Continuum 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. [92]
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. [90][93]
Assistant N/A Cortana An intelligent personal assistant included with Windows 10, named after an artificial intelligence character in Halo [94]
Cougar N/A VMM32 32-bit kernel [6][95][96]
Darwin Microsoft Installer Windows Installer A Windows service and application programming interface for installing software on computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems [97]
Frosting Windows 95 codename Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 [98]
Hydra N/A 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. [99]
Jaguar N/A N/A 16-bit DOS kernel for Windows 95 based on MS-DOS 5.0, used by Windows 95 boot loader and compatibility layer. [6][95][96]
Jupiter N/A Windows Runtime A new application framework on Windows 8 used to create cross-platform "immersive" apps. [100]
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. [101]
Morro N/A Microsoft Security Essentials MSE was codenamed after the Morro de São Paulo beach in Brazil. [102][103]
Neon N/A Fluent Design Microsoft Fluent Design System is a revamp of the Windows UI based around five key components: Light, Depth, Motion, Material, and Scale. [104]
O'Hare N/A 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". [105]
Panther N/A N/A Cancelled. Panther was a 32-bit kernel based on Windows NT kernel. [95][96]
Pinball N/A 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. [106][107][108]
Piton N/A ReadyDrive Feature introduced in Windows Vista to support hybrid drives [109][110]
Protogon N/A ReFS The successor of NTFS [111]
Rincon N/A Internet Explorer 7 Rincon is a surfing beach in Puerto Rico [112]
Spartan N/A Microsoft Edge Web browser first introduced in Windows 10, which uses Trident rendering engine. Refers to Spartans in Halo. [113]
Stimpy N/A Windows Shell Applies to Windows 95 only. [95][96]
Viridian N/A Hyper-V Virtualization update for Windows Server 2008 [114]
WinFS N/A N/A 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. [115][116]
Cascadia N/A Windows Terminal A terminal emulator for Windows 10.

Microsoft Servers[]

SQL Server family[]

Codename Final name Notes Ref
SQLNT SQL Server 4.21
SQL95 SQL Server 6.0
Hydra SQL Server 6.5
Sphinx SQL Server 7.0 [117]
Plato OLAP Services 7.0 "OLAP Services" was later renamed Microsoft Analysis Services [118]
Shiloh SQL Server 2000 Version 8
Rosetta Reporting Services in SQL Server 2000
Yukon SQL Server 2005 Version 9 [119]

[120]

Picasso Analysis Services in SQL Server 2005
Katmai SQL Server 2008 Version 10 [121]

[122]

Kilimanjaro SQL Server 2008 R2 Version 10.5 [123]
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. [124]

[125] [126]

Denali SQL Server 2012 Version 11 [127]

[128] [129]

Juneau SQL Server Data Tools Was included in SQL Server 2012, later released as a standalone downloadable application [130]
Crescent Power View A data visualisation tool that originally shipped as part of SQL Server 2012, later an add-in for Microsoft Excel [131]
SQL14 SQL Server 2014 Version 12 [132]
Hekaton SQL Server In-Memory OLTP In-memory database engine built into SQL Server 2014 [133]
SQL16 SQL Server 2016 Version 13 [134]
Helsinki SQL Server 2017 Version 14 [135]

[136]

Seattle SQL Server 2019 Version 15 [137]
Aris SQL Server Big Data Clusters Public preview available for download. Announced at Microsoft Ignite 2018 event on September 24–28 [138]

Others[]

Codename Final name Ref
Hermes Microsoft System Management Server 1.0 [139]
Catapult Microsoft Proxy Server 1.0 [140]
Geneva Active Directory Federation Services [141]
Falcon Microsoft Message Queue Server [142]
Viper Microsoft Transaction Server [143]
Stirling Microsoft Forefront Protection Suite [144]

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). [145]
Dolphin Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0
Zamboni Microsoft Visual C++ 4.1 After Zamboni, an ice resurfacing machine. [145]
Boston Microsoft Visual Studio 97 Named for Boston, Massachusetts [146]
Aspen Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Named after the popular ski destination Aspen, Colorado [147]
Cassini Web Server ASP.NET Development Server The lightweight local Web server that is launched in Visual Studio in order to test Web projects [148]
Hatteras Visual Studio Team System's Source Control System N/A Named after the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in the Outer Banks region of North Carolina [149]
Ocracoke Visual Studio Team System load testing suite N/A Named after the Ocracoke Island Lighthouse on Ocracoke Island, also in North Carolina [149]
Currituck Team Foundation Work Item Tracking N/A Named after the Currituck Beach Lighthouse in Corolla, North Carolina [149]
Bodie Team Foundation Server SDK N/A Named after the Bodie Island Lighthouse in North Carolina [149]
Tuscany Online version of Visual Studio. Currently a research project [150]
Phoenix N/A A Microsoft research software development kit [151]
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 [152][153]
KittyHawk Visual Studio LightSwitch RAD tool aimed at non-programmers [154][155]
Rainier Visual Studio .NET (2002) Named for Mount Rainier, a volcanic mountain peak visible from the Seattle area (where Microsoft is based) [156]
Everett Visual Studio .NET 2003 Named after the town Everett, Washington in Washington state [156][157][158]
Whidbey[158] Visual Studio 2005 Named after Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound[156][157]
Orcas Visual Studio 2008 Named after Orcas Island in the Puget Sound [156][157][158]
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 [159][160][161]
Rosario Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 (formerly Team System or Team Suite) [162]
Cider N/A Visual Studio designer for building Windows Presentation Foundation applications, meant to be used by application developers [163]
Monaco TBA In-browser IDE for Visual Studio. Monaco powers Visual Studio Code. [164][165]

.NET Framework family[]

Codename Final name Notes Ref
Astoria WCF Data Services Enables the creation and consumption of OData services for the web [166]
Atlas ASP.NET AJAX An implementation for ASP.NET of Ajax native to .NET Framework 2.0 [167]
Avalon Windows Presentation Foundation Graphical subsystem released as part of .NET Framework 3.0 [168]
Fusion N/A .NET Framework subsystem for locating and loading assemblies, including GAC management [169][170]
Hailstorm .NET My Services [171]
Indigo Windows Communication Foundation An application programming interface (API) in .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications [172]
Jolt Silverlight 1.0 [173]
Lightning, Project 42 .NET Framework 1.0 Project Lightning was the original codename for the Common Language Runtime in 1997. The team was based in building 42, hence Project 42. [174][175]
Project 7 N/A Codename for early .NET academic recruiting program. 7 was a prime factor of 42, metaphorizing the relationship between Project 7 and Project 42 (see above). [176]
Roslyn .NET Compiler Platform Open-source project that exposes programmatic access to compilers via corresponding APIs [177][178][179][180]

Languages[]

Codename 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++ Named after the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta
Metro Microsoft Design language A typography-based design language

Others[]

Codename 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. [181]
Volta N/A A developer toolset for building multi-tier web applications [182]
Project Centennial Desktop App Converter Allows developers to re-package existing desktop apps into the APPX format of Universal Windows Platform and sell them in Windows Store. [183][184]

Gaming hardware[]

Codename Preliminary name(s) Final name Notes Ref
DirectX Box Xbox [185]
Natal Kinect Motion sensitive control system. [186][187]
Xenon Xbox 2 Xbox 360 Successor to the original Xbox. [188]
Durango Xbox 720 Xbox One Successor to Xbox 360. [189]
Edmonton Xbox One S Xbox One with 4K and HEVC Support. [190]
Scorpio Xbox One X Upgrade to Xbox One, announced at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2016. Announced to have 6 TFLOPS GPU and 8-core CPU. [191]
Baraboo Microsoft HoloLens [192]
Scarlett Xbox Two Project name for a family of next-gen consoles. Xbox Anaconda and Xbox Lockhart are both part of Project Scarlet. Announced by Microsoft at E3 2018. [193]
Anaconda Xbox Two Xbox Series X Successor to Xbox One. Higher end model. Announced by Microsoft at The Game Awards 2019. [194]
Lockhart Xbox Series S Xbox Series S Potential lower end model for a cheaper price. Was announced by Microsoft in September 2020. Would be successor to Xbox One S. [194]
Edinburgh Originally spotted by software developer bllyhlbrt on Twitter, a new codename, Xbox Edinburgh, can be seen within the Xbox One's operating system, underneath Lockhart and Anaconda. [195]

Office software[]

Codename Preliminary name Final name Notes Ref
Albany Microsoft Equipt Microsoft's all-in-one, subscription-based service for office, communication, and security software [196]
Bandit Schedule+ 1.0 Microsoft's first Personal Information Manager
Barney Money 1.0 Microsoft's personal finance software (Flintstones theme)
Betty Money 2.0
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 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. [197]
Danube Phase I Microsoft CRM 1.2 [197]
Danube Phase II Microsoft CRM 3 [197]
Dino Microsoft Money 3.0
Kilimanjaro Titan Microsoft CRM 4 Was originally Kilimanjaro but changed to Titan, as Kilimanjaro was too difficult to spell [197]
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 N/A Set of Service-oriented architecture (SOA) technologies [198][199][200]
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. [201]
Rigel Skype Room Systems A meeting room system designed to interface with Skype [202]
Tahiti Microsoft SharedView N/A A screen sharing tool which allows users to take over sessions and interact with remote desktops. No audio or conference facilities. [203][204]
Tahoe SharePoint Portal Server 2001
Utopia Microsoft Bob Intended to be a user-friendly GUI [205]

Other codenames[]

Codename Preliminary name Final name Notes Ref
Acropolis N/A Application framework for Smart Clients
Aero Diamond N/A 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 [206]
Alexandria Zune Marketplace An online music store
Argo Zune A digital media player
Atlanta N/A A cloud service that monitors Microsoft SQL Server deployments [207]
Blackbird N/A 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 N/A 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 much latent parallelism; that can be efficiently mapped to the user's.
Dallas N/A Aims to help discover, purchase and manage, premium data subscriptions in the Windows Azure platform [208]
Dorado Zune PC Client
HailStorm .NET My Services Collection of web services centered around the storage and retrieval of information. Cancelled before it could fully materialize. [209][210]
Honolulu Windows Admin Center
Kratos PowerApps Software for building and sharing native, mobile, and Web apps [211]
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 [212][213]
Metro XML Paper Specification (XPS) Named after Metro by T-Mobile, a wireless prepaid service in the United States.
Milan Surface Microsoft PixelSense Table-top style computer with multi-touch touchscreen interface
Mira N/A Windows CE .NET-based technology for smart displays [214][215]
Monaco N/A Music-making program similar to Apple GarageBand application [216]
Origami Ultra-Mobile PC
Palladium Trusted Windows N/A 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. [217][218]
Softsled N/A Software based Windows Media Center Extender[clarification needed Is it "software-based" or "software based on"?]
Springfield Microsoft Popfly N/A Website in Alpha testing stage providing mashup and webpages creation tools, with publishing as Rich Internet Application option [219]
Wolverine TCP/IP stack for Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Named after the Wolverine, a character from Marvel Comics. [220]

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