- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: ScorpioPosted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on Aug 31, 2007 5:40 AM Subscribe Alerts

- The last Microsoft Codename a Day for August is Scorpio, a k a the 80 GB Zune 2 many are expecting Microsoft to release this holiday season.[Read the rest]
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- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Nautilus
- Today's Microsoft codename of the day is "Nautilus." Yes, as in shell. The Visual Studio shell, to be exact. [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 30, 2007 9:32 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Falcon
- Falcon and Zephyr are both Fords. And also both codenames for Xbox 360 components, as noted in today's Microsoft Codename of the Day entry. [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 29, 2007 1:38 PM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Blue
- Today's Microsoft Codename of the day: Blue. If you guessed "Blue" might have something to do with "cloud," you're seemingly on the right track. [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 28, 2007 7:36 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Stirling
- Stirling is the codename for Microsoft's next-gen version of its Forefront enterprise security products. Microsoft revealed the codename in the summer of 2007, but the deliverables aren't set to begin... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 27, 2007 6:11 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Springfield
- Microsoft codename "Springfield": Is it just another of Microsoft's ever-expanding family of city codenames? Or is Homer Simpson involved, somehow? [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 24, 2007 8:26 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Milan
- Today's Microsoft codename of the day is Milan, a k a, the Microsoft Surface tabletop -- the first units of which are due to go to customers this fall. [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 23, 2007 8:52 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Magellan
- I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 22, 2007 7:30 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Gatineau
- The month of Microsoft codenames on "All About Microsoft" continues. Today's entry: Gatineau. Gatineau is a city in Western Quebec ... and the codename of Microsoft's Web-analytics offering for adCenter. [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 21, 2007 6:37 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Warsaw
- Today's Microsoft codename of the day is "Warsaw," which is yet another of Microsoft's unified-communications components. Microsoft is looking to build out its line of unified communications products as both... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 20, 2007 5:41 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Ibiza
- Another day, another Microsoft codename. Today's Codename of the Day: Ibiza. And today's question: Is Ibiza the new name for "Harmonica"? Or is this online/offline synchronization technology something close but... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 17, 2007 11:17 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Harmonica
- Today's Microsoft code name of the day: Harmonica Best guess on what it is: A P2P data synchronization service that could be key to Microsoft's cloud-computing vision [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 16, 2007 1:15 PM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Montauk
- Montauk: The very tip of Long Island. And also the codename of a new commercial-simulation program under development by Microsoft, that will build on the Flight Simulator and Train Simulator... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 15, 2007 9:52 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Tahiti
- Microsoft seems to have quite the island theme going with some of its recent codenames. There's Fiji, Hawaii, Greenland and -- today's Microsoft Code Name of the Day entry --... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 14, 2007 7:53 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Greenland
- The Microsoft Code Name of the Day series continues with "Greenland," yet another of Microsoft's growing family of place-name-themed codenames. [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 13, 2007 7:49 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Avalanche
- A few years back, there was much to-do over Microsoft developing what was described as a "BitTorrent killer." That technology, code-named "Avalanche," is finally out in pre-beta form. You can... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 10, 2007 9:41 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Cosmos
- The Microsoft Code Name of the Day is Cosmos. Cosmos, according to sources experienced in the ways of the orderly, systematic universe, is a forthcoming data storage/processing framework for Live... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 9, 2007 9:38 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Volta
- Today's Microsoft Code Name of the Day: Volta. Volta, named for the father of the "volt" unit of power, is a Microsoft research project dedicated to "stretching the .Net programming... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 8, 2007 10:08 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Jasper
- I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 7, 2007 7:02 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Astoria
- Today's Microsoft Code Name of the Day: Astoria. Astoria consists of multiple pieces: Bits you can install on your own systems (a Community Technology Preview of which Microsoft introduced at... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 6, 2007 6:04 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Tolesto
- Today's Microsoft code name: Tolesto. Tolesto is one of the three orbiting moons of Saturn. It's also the core subset of Microsoft's Common Language Runtime. [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 3, 2007 5:55 AM
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Confucius
- I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Aug 2, 2007 6:09 AM
- Microsoft readies new 'Tahiti' collaboration service
- Microsoft is about to begin testing a new collaboration service, code-named "Tahiti," according to private beta testers. [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Mar 28, 2007 2:04 PM
- Microsoft's Windows 'Fiji' on track to debut before Windows Seven
- It turns out that "Fiji" is, indeed, an interim Windows release and it is NOT Vista SP1. Fiji is the codename for the next version of Windows Media Center. And... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Mar 19, 2007 9:53 AM
- Microsoft 'Quattro': Fourth time's the charm
- "Quattro," a k a Windows Home Server, has been a puzzle to me, in terms of its codename. It didn't seem to fit with the other members of the Windows... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Feb 6, 2007 12:48 PM
- Goodbye, 'Vienna.' Hello 'Windows 7'
- It's February 1: The first "official" day of the Steven Sinofsky Windows era. That means, among other things, that it's time to move beyond the vista-themed family of codenames and... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Feb 1, 2007 8:49 AM
- A (Microsoft) code name a day: Centro
- Today's final entry in the December 2006 "Microsoft Code Name a Day" series is "Centro," aka Microsoft's Windows Server SKU aimed at mid-sized businesses. I know there are lots more... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Dec 30, 2006 6:25 AM
- A (Microsoft) code name a day: Creekside
- Even though more and more teams at Microsoft seem to be shying away from christening their fledgling products with good, old-fashioned code names – favoring the ever-so-boring “V.Next” designation instead... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Dec 29, 2006 7:47 AM
- A (Microsoft) code name a day: Sedna
- The vibrant (and vocal) Microsoft Visual FoxPro community is involved in a couple of projects with planetary code names: Sedna and SednaX. [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Dec 28, 2006 7:45 AM
- A (Microsoft) code name a day: Carmine
- There's one more week to go of Microsoft code names on this blog. Today's entry: Carmine, aka System Center Virtual Machine Manager. [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Dec 27, 2006 7:46 AM
- A (Microsoft) code name a day: G2
- Today's Microsoft code name of the day is "G2", aka Windows Live Messenger Mobile client for Windows Mobile devices (Yikes. Bring on the naming police!) [Read the rest]
- Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Dec 22, 2006 7:56 AM
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