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Codename Blackcomb changed to Vienna?
Posted by Steven Bink January 18, 2006 9:37 PM with 4 comment(s)
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Codename Blackcomb was internal codename first talked about in 2001 I think. It would be the succesor of Windows XP and .NET server (codename Whistler). Later Microsoft decided to create a small in between version of Windows codename Longhorn.
Longhorn is a bar in the Whistler ski-resort between the mountains Whister and Blackcomb.

Well we know Longhorn turned out to be a major Windows release, which is over 5 years of development. Blackcomb is still the next major release of Windows after Longhorn (Vista) but first Longhorn "R2" Windows editions will be released.

Anyway, on the Channel 9 forum, Robert Scoble comments that the codename Blackcomb is changed to "Vienna"
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Zeo said:

Hey Bink....it's Zeo.

Thanks for picking this up.

From what I'm hearing from MSTFies....is that Scoble is wrong... citing the codename coming from the RTC group:

http://www.crn.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18840525&flatPage=true

Interesting non the less..

January 18, 2006 11:51 PM
 

JasonCox said:

We'll have to see, if a video pops up on C9 in the next few weeks about Vienna we'll know it's true, other wise we'll hear an apology from Scoble.
January 19, 2006 2:11 AM
 

zackwhittaker said:

Ahh.... I don't mean to cause a stir, but from a couple of my sources within Microsoft, they're not 100% sure and the bloke on the Vista team refused to comment on it, but they've said that a codename-change would be confusing for customers waiting for software before it's released, and also means the programmer having to change code to comply with the new name... which is why they believe it's actually happened. [:S] Who knows... I guess we'll just have to wait and see [:)]

ZackNET Enterprises
ZackNET VistaBase

January 19, 2006 11:30 AM
 

milan221 said:

Blackcomb is actualy a windows version thats going to be released after Windows Vista? I don't get all this, can someone please explain this to me?
January 20, 2006 9:21 AM

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