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All About Microsoft CodeTracker
Keeping track of Microsoft's myriad codenames is an (almost) full-time occupation. I know, as I
spend a lot of my work hours tracking down the latest names in the hopes of being able to better
keep tabs on what's coming next from the Redmondians.

Each month, I'll be releasing an updated, downloadable version of the CodeTracker. I'll add new
codenames -- arranged in alphabetical order by codename -- of forthcoming Microsoft products
and technologies. I also will note timing changes (date slips, the release of a new test build, the
disappearance of a planned deliverable) for entries that are already part of the Tracker. Once
Microsoft releases the final version of a product or technology I've been tracking, I will remove it
from the Tracker. In that way, the CodeTracker will remain focused on futures.

(An aside about the Tracker: A question mark in place of an entry means I have insufficient
information to hazard even an educated guess about a particular category.)

If you have suggested new entries or corrections to existing ones, please drop me an e-mail at
mjf at microsofttracker dot com.

Thanks!

Mary Jo Foley, Editor, ZDNet's "All About Microsoft" blog

This Month's Theme: OOF

It’s the height of the summer here in the U.S., and summer holidays are in full swing for the
Softies. Now that the Worldwide Partner Conference, MGX global sales conference, TechReady
training event and the Financial Analyst Meeting are all history for this year, many
Redmondians are taking time off.

That means lots of OOF (Out of the Office) messages and not a whole lot of coding -- for many,
though not for all teams – is going on. In spite of this, a few new Microsoft codenames have
managed to drop into the laps of us codename sleuths. Brand-new to this month’s chart are
Hawaii (not the Visual Studio 2010 one); Hyper-V V3, MAUI and SBS 7. I’ve also taken
advantage of the slower summer to prune the Tracker, weeding out defunct entries and updating
the links and due dates in many of the existing entries throughout.
I’m expecting more codenames to come my way this fall, especially as Microsoft inches closer to
its Windows Phone 7 launch and its cloud-centric Professional Developers Conference in late
October. Those kinds of so-called “forcing functions” are always good for generating more
rumors and news….

Until then, without further ado, it's on to this month's Microsoft CodeTracker.

Codename Expected Description of the product Projected Due Date for Latest Additional info
Product Name final release Milestone
achieved

Alchemy ? The customizable May be part of still- ? More Alchemy


shell/framework for unannounced mobile information
Embedded Compact builds devices under
development at Microsoft

Aurora ? A small business appliance 2011 (?) Test build due More Aurora
built around Windows Server in August information
2008 R2, includes Active
Directory functionality. Half
on-premises; half in cloud

Axum (formerly Domain-specific language for ? In internal More Axum


codenamed concurrent programming. incubation as information
Maestro); final Built on top of Microsoft's of 2009. New
name: ? CCR engine build
supporting VS
2010 released
in mid-April

Azurelight ? Cloud-based product support Source code and In More


service documentation was due development Azurelight
summer 2009 on MSDN information

Barrelfish ? Multikernel OS project from ? Early test More


Microsoft Research version of OS Barrelfish
Cambridge and ETH Zurich downloadable information
researchers as of
September
2009

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BizTalk vNext ? Successor to the BizTalk Post-2011 BizTalk More BizTalk
Server 2010 release of Server 2010, vNext
Microsoft’s integration server with information
(which is due in 2010). AppFabric
Original goal was to include compatibility,
more Windows AppFabric now due in
compatibility Q3 2010. No
update on
V.Next

BlueDB ? Sounds like, as of mid-May, ? ? More


this is still an active project Blue/database
and not an early codename futures
for SQL Azure or Azure information
storage. Not sure what it is,
other than a database-
futures effort

BPOS Lite A low-end version of MS’ ? ? More BPOS


Business Productivity Online Lite
Suite (BPOS). Unclear if this information
will be Microsoft
hosted/managed or hosted
by partners

Bunker-V ? Microsoft Research project; ? Paper More Bunker-V


focus is on improving presented in information
hypervisor security in the early June
cloud 2010 at MS
Research
summit

Chakra ? New JavaScript engine in IE9 2011 (?) Latest IE 9 More Chakra
preview information
released in
early May
2010. Beta
expected in
Sept. 2010

Chelan Windows The next major release of Q4 2010 Public test More Chelan
Embedded one of Microsoft's embedded build released information
Compact 7 platforms (the one inside in early June
phones and the Zune HD, 201
plus third party products)

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Colorado ? “Client Computer Connector” 2011 (?) Vail is in beta More Colorado
framework common to the (officially as information
Vail and Aurora (and of April
possibly also next version of 2010);
SBS). Also known as Aurora to go
extensibility SDK to testers in
August

Commute UX ? Car info-tainment system ? Demonstrated More


from Microsoft Research at TechFest Commute UX
2009 in information
February

Configuration ? Adds multiple device Second half of 2011 Beta 1 made More
Manager v.Next management to Config available in Configuration
Manager product May 2010 Manager
v.Next
information

Cosmos ? Storage/file system layer Cosmos is part of Windows More Cosmos


component of Microsoft's Microsoft's foundational Azure went information
Red Dog cloud (Azure) OS Azure platform and not a commercial in
platform standalone February
product/service 2010; all core
components
being
continually
updated

Courier ? There’s another Courier – ? Been in More Courier


not the dual-screen tablet development information
incubation that Microsoft since 2008
killed in April 2010 – but a
synchronization
platform/service for
mobile/PCs from Microsoft
Research

Dallas ? Data as a service offering Q4 2010 Private CTP More Dallas


built on top of Azure test build information
available in
November
2009; CTP3
due in August
2010

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Denali SQL Server Version of SQL Server that ? ? More Denali
2011 or 2012 will follow SQL Server 2008 information
(?) R2

Descry ? Open-source visualization ? Sample code More Descry


samples and code available on information
CodePlex and
Mix Online
site starting
in February
2009

Digital Lens ? MS Innovation Labs (Israel) ? Test version More Digital


tool for developers writing downloadable Lens
apps that can be viewable by as of early information
those with vision June 2010
impairments

Doloto ? Microsoft Research (and now ? Test version More Doloto


Dev Labs) tool for making available for information
Ajax page downloads faster download as
of September
2009

Dorado Zune software Microsoft’s rough equivalent New version likely around Current More Dorado
for the PC to iTunes. Being updated to holiday 2010 version information
support both Zune HD supports
players and Windows Phones Zune HD (and
other media
players)

Dynamics CRM Dynamics CRM Next version of Microsoft’s Second half of 2010 for CTP 3 More
5 2011 on-premises and online CRM online version; early 2011 delivered in Dynamics CRM
products for on-premises software March 2010; 5 information
release public beta
due in Sept.
2010

Dynamics NAV 7 ? Next version of Microsoft’s Originally due in 2010/11; ? More


Dynamics/NAV ERP platform now in 2011/12 Dynamics NAV
7 information

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Echoes ? Platform for Target was mid-2008 to Various More Echoes
distribution/delivery of Live carriers. No updated word carriers and information
Mobile services to Microsoft on status providers
groups and third-party been testing
phone/IPTV providers since spring
2008

Emporia ? A Twitter-viewing client from ? Public beta More Project


Microsoft FUSE Labs with limited Emporia
functionality information
commenced
in late May

Experiment 19 ? Graphics component of the ? ? More


Menlo mobile project from Experiment 19
Microsoft research information

Felix Microsoft Office A Facebook-centric version ? Beta More Felix


Docs of Office Web Apps from commenced information
Microsoft FUSE Labs in April 2010

Florida Windows Intune Windows management Early 2011 Public beta More Florida
software and service that expanded in information
evolved from System Center July 2010
Online Desktop Manager
(SCODM – codenamed
Jupiter)

Gazelle ? A new, security-focused ? Gazelle now More Gazelle


browser from Microsoft part of the information
Research. (The former ServiceOS
codename was Mashup OS.) project in
Now superseded by Microsoft
ServiceOS project Research

Geneva Active Directory An identity metasystem. WIF Various pieces shipping ADFS 2.0 More Geneva
Federation piece shipped in November. over the next several RTW’d in information
Services; Active Directory Federation months through Q3 2010 early May
Windows Services (ADFS) version 2.0
Identity delivered in early May. Still
Framework; nothing new on CardSpace.
CardSpace

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Gestalt Gestalt (?) Library that allows coders to ? Test version More Gestalt
use Python and Ruby as available for information
alternatives to the JavaScript download as
language in building of late July
(X)HTML pages on PCs or 2009
Macs. Silverlight is under the
covers

Glimmer ? A jQuery interactive design ? Test bits More Glimmer


tool posted on information
MSDN in April
2009

Grava Semblio Educational add-in for Office ? Shift from More Grava
that is now morphing into a software to information
service service
occurred in
April 2010

Gustav ? Immersive digital painting ? Research More Gustav


research project project information
demonstrated
at TechFest
2010 in
March 2010

Hawaii ? Microsoft Research project to ? 3 universities More Hawaii


create new cloud-centric currently information
mobile apps and services. building
Building blocks are Azure, Hawaii
Win Live ID, Orion and other projects
Microsoft services

Helios ? Microsoft Research project to ? Internal More Helios


develop a satellite-kernel- testing information
based operating system.
Built on top of the MSR
Singularity OS

Horizon Windows Live Microsoft's Part of Windows Live Most of Live More Live
Sync collaboration/synchronization Essentials (Wave 4) this Mesh Mesh
service, formerly known as fall combined information
Live Mesh with Windows
Live Sync;
released in
beta form in
late June

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Houston ? Browser-based Silverlight ? CTP 1 went to More Houston
control enabling direct testers in July information
interaction with SQL Azure. 2010
Goal is rapid cloud database
development

Huron Data Sync "Cloud-based data hub" ? Preview More Huron


Service for SQL based on SQL Data Services versions of information
Azure and SQL plus Sync Framework. One these tools
Azure Data of the projects of SQL released in
Sync Services Labs June

Hyper-V V3 ? Next version of Microsoft’s 2011/2012 (?) if part of ? More Hyper-V


hypervisor virtualization Windows 8/Windows V3 information
technology. V3 expected to Server 8
be available in both client
and server versions

Ibiza Sync Synchronization service for Version 1 RTM'd in 2009; MS working More Ibiza
Framework online/offline scenarios; Version 2 SDK and on taking information
(formerly designed especially for redistributables are out Sync
codenamed taking Web services and Framework
Harmonica) databases offline capabilities to
mobile and
other
platforms

Incarnate ? Service for finding/reusing ? In test form More


your avatars from the Mix since early Incarnate
Online Labs 2010 information

Internet Internet Next version of Microsoft’s Second half of 2011 (?) 3 developer More IE 9
Explorer 9 Explorer 9 browser; will include more previews out information
HTML, CSS support, plus so far; first
hardware accelerated beta due in
graphics performance early
September
2010

JSMeter ? Research project focused on ? New findings More JSMeter


analyzing and altering to be information
JavaScript benchmarks and presented in
engines June 2010 at
Web Apps ’10
conference

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Kilimanjaro SQL Server BI-focused upgrade to SQL May 2010 for all versions RTM’d April More
2008 R2 Server 2008 except Parallel Data 21, 2010 Kilimanjaro
Warehouse (expected information
later in 2010)

KittyHawk Visual Studio FoxPro-like RAD 2011 First test More


LightSwitch development build due KittyHawk
tools/framework for line of August 23, information
business apps 2010

Kobe ? Web 2.0 service ? First test More Kobe


development kit; has met release out in information
with some internal criticism April 2009
for not making good use of
ASP.Net

Live Framework Live Framework Windows Live development ? New Live SDK More Live
(?) platform delivered in Framework
June 2010 tools
information

LongARM ? Rumored port of Vista to the 2011/2012 if Windows 8 ? More LongARM


ARM processor. Latest word is the new target information
is an ARM port of Windows is
looking like a Win8
deliverable

M M (was Microsoft's Oslo modeling Could be folded into New CTP out More M
formerly language future version of Visual in November information
codenamed D) Studio or other Microsoft 2009
product

Madison SQL Server SQL Server data appliance Expected later in 2010 Did not RTM More Madison
2008 R2 Parallel based on Data Allegro with the rest information
Data Warehouse technology of SQL Server
Edition 2008 R2

Madison (2) ? Ad-funded version of ? ? More Madison


Windows (2)
information

MAUI Mobile Part of Microsoft Research’s ? 3 universities More MAUI


Assistance Hawaii Project, which is engaged so information
Using focused on getting students far
Infrastructure to build cloud-centric mobile
apps/services

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Foley
Metro Windows Phone Based on the Zune HD and Holiday 2010 (launch Included in More Metro
7 UI Windows Media Center UI announcement sounds private OEM information
like October 2010) builds of Win
Phone 7

Miami HealthVault New SharePoint-based Rolling out now (2010) Introduced at More Miami
Community component of Microsoft’s the HIMSS information
Connect HealthVault software/service conference in
platform March 2010

Midori ? Concurrent, distributed ? Post-2011 (if More Midori


operating system which and when it information
could be the successor to comes out of
Windows incubation)

MinSafe New codename Related to RedHawk; the In development inside First results More MinSafe
may now be Windows' side of an Microsoft could be information
XYZ (?) incubated project to replace integrated
Win32 with managed .Net into Windows
technologies 8
(2011/2012?)

MinWin MinWin Project to slim down the The MinWin concept is MinWin is in More MinWin
Windows core. Also refers to influencing Windows the Windows information
the slimmed-down core itself development thinking 7 main
already branch; users
unlikely to
see MinWin
"surfaced"
before
Windows 8
(2011/2012)

Mojave R2 Commerce Next update to Commerce Early 2010 Latest CTP More Mojave
Server 2009 R2 Server. Expected to be 64- available in R2 information
bit only and will possibly no May 2010
longer support Windows
Server 2003 and SQL Server
2005

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Monsoon ? Network architecture for ? Microsoft More Monsoon
commoditizing and scaling white paper information
datacenters implies this is
in
development
now

Morro Microsoft Free anti-malware service; V1 delivered end of V2 test build More Morro
Security successor to Live OneCare; September 2009. V2 made information
Essentials Downloadable for XP, Vista expected before end of available in
and Windows 7 users calendar 2010 July 2010

Mouse Mischief Mouse Mischief App for building PowerPoint- Final due first half of 2010 Beta out in More Mouse
(?) based apps that builds on January 2010 Mischief
the MultiPoint SDK. Aimed information
primarily at students in
developing nations

Nano Touch ? MSR technology for adding ? Demonstrated More Nano


touch to small-screen at TechFest Touch
devices (including wearable 2009 in information
PCs). Successor to the Lucid February
Touch project

Natal Kinect New gesture-focused game November 4, 2010 Soft launched More Natal
controlling camera for Xbox at E3 in June information
360 (and someday, MS says,
PCs)

Newport ? Collaborative mobile ? ? More Newport


application from Microsoft information
Research for sharing photos,
notes, etc.

Niagara Hohm Microsoft-hosted energy- ? (was supposed to be out Invitation- More Niagara
management service. First in in final form in late 2009) only beta out information
a line of energy-related in late June
software/services 2009

Oahu ? Consumer-focused Surface ? Microsoft More Oahu


tabletop retailing for about surveying information
$1,500 users about
interest; no
prototypes
yet

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Foley
Office 15 ? Follow-on to Office 2010 Rumored date is 2013 Microsoft More Office 15
starting to information
garner
feature
requests as of
December
2009

Office Office New version of Microsoft’s Q4 2010 (for on-premises TAP testers More OCS14
Communications Communications unified comm. Platform and version); early 2011 for received code information
Server 14 Server 2010 (?) the successor to OCS 2007 OCS Online with OCS 14 in March
R2 features 2010; no
word on
when/if a
public beta
will happen

OfficeTalk ? Twitter for business (similar ? Microsoft More


to Yammer) concept test adding select OfficeTalk
from Office Labs outside information
testers to the
project as of
March 2010

OneAlbum ? Face-recognition research Researchers More


project with uses across demonstrated OneAlbum
Web-based photo galleries at TechFest information
2010 in
March 2010

Orchard (the successor Open-source CMS platform, ? Specs and More Orchard
to Oxite) now “owned” by the source information
CodePlex Foundation and available as
staffed/backed by Microsoft of November
2009

Orleans ? Programming environment ? ? More Orleans


for Azure information

Oslo Bing This isn’t the MS modeling Rollout in U.S. began in No word on More Oslo
Spring/Summer platform (codenamed Oslo); late March 2010; new if/when the information
2010 refresh it’s the UX/UI for the Bing entertainment and UI Oslo UI will
Spring 2010 refresh updates added in June be adopted
2010 by Bing
teams in
other
countries

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Oslo Repository ? Integrated repository at the Final will be integrated New test More Oslo
crux of Microsoft's Oslo into a future version of build out in repository
modeling strategy. MS keeps SQL Server November information
whittling away at what Oslo 2009
is and will do

Paris ? New Windows Presentation Q4 2010 OCS 2010 (or More Paris
Foundation and Silverlight whatever the information
controls for OCS 14; this final name is)
could be the Silverlight Web still in private
client for OCS 14 testing only
Communicator

Pimento Zune Mobile Zune services for Windows Available for Windows Windows More Pimento
Mobile devices. Expected to Phone 7 for Holiday 2010 Phone 7 test information
include music/video devices go to
purchase, playback, sharing, select devs in
social-networking and more July

Ping Ping (?) Tool for sharing Bing search ? Invitation- More Ping
results only test information
phase kicked
off in
September
2009

PlayAnywhere Mobile Surface Research project focused on ? Researchers More


enabling 3D interaction with demo’d at PlayAnywhere
mobile devices using a TechFest information
camera and a projector 2010 in
March 2010

Plex ? Office Labs' Virtual canvas TouchWall is a 2019 ? More Plex


software underlying thing; Plex is part of information
TouchWall and other future prototypes
productivity technologies

Purple ? The UX, or user Holiday 2010 (?) Microsoft More Purple
experience)/interface, for pulled plug on information
Pink. Could this refer to Loop Kin in late
(?). If so, may appear in June 2010
some form with WP7 phones

Quadrant ? Visual modeling tool; part of Final could be integrated New Oslo CTP More Quadrant
the Oslo trio of products into a future Visual Studio went out in information
release Or is Quadrant November
now tied to SQL Server? 2009

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Foley
Quant ? Cost model for patch ? White papers More Quant
management; MS and and information
Securosis developing in information
tandem. Results will be available for
available under Creative download
Commons license

Red Dog Windows Azure The lowest level OS piece of Microsoft began charging In beta since More Red Dog
Microsoft's cloud for Red Dog on Feb. 1 fall 2008; information
environment. Similar to 2010 new updates
Amazon's EC2. released
regularly

RedHawk ? Microsoft incubation project Part of Windows 8/.Net 5 ? More RedHawk


to replace Win32 with wave in 2011/2012 (?) information
managed code. One
expected deliverable: A
back-end compiler for Midori

Rosetta ? Visitmix Labs training project ? Current focus More Rosetta


to help developers learn new of Project information
technologies based on skills Rosetta is to
they currently have help Flash
developers
learn
Silverlight

SBS 7 Small Business Next version of SBS, 2011 (?) Public test More SBS 7
Server 2011 (?) featuring Windows Server build due in information
2008 R2, Exchange 2010, August 2010
SharePoint Foundation 2010.
On-premise product (Aurora
is its hybrid cloud-on-prem
cousin)

Seahorse Pivot LiveLabs project using visual ? Invitation- More Seahorse


search to help users “view only test information
the Web as a web” preview out
in November
2009

Seawall ? Microsoft Research and ? Researchers More Seawall


Cornell project looking at presented information
ways to improve Seawall paper
multitenancy performance at Usenix
and security in the cloud 2010 in June

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Second Light Latest Microsoft Research project ? Mobile More Second
incarnation is that marries touch Surface Light
“Mobile Surface” technology with projection demonstrated information
technology. One of the at TechFest
successors to MSR's Play 2010 in
Anywhere technology. March

ServiceOS ? Microsoft Research project ? Internal More


that is the successor to prototype ServiceOS
Gazelle (browser-OS exists inside information
mashup) Microsoft
Research

Sift Sift (?) Could be the name for an ? Microsoft's More Sift
“operating system software trademark information
for mobile phones; computer attempt
search engine software; "initially
computer programs for refused" by
searching email, text the PTO; not
messages, address and clear if and
contact information.” when
Redmond will
reapply

Sitka SQL Azure Once viewed as Microsoft's Microsoft began harging Ongoing More Sitka
(formerly known equivalent to Amazon's customers for it on Feb. updates being information
as SQL Data SimpleDB. Now looking more 1, 2010 made
Services) like Microsoft-hosted SQL
Server

Skinput ? Research project showing ? Demonstrated More Skinput


how human body can be at TechFest information
used as an input surface 2010 in
March 2010

SkyBox My Phone Service for syncing phone ? Version 1.0 More Skybox
information across the Web; for WM 6.x information
similar to Apple's MobileMe. released in
“Find My Phone” service for October 2009
WP7 is one piece of this Version 2.0
(paid
subscription)
was slated for
first half of
2010

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Foley
SmartFlow ? Microsoft alternative to Now a project of ? More
Adobe LightRoom, but with Microsoft’s FUSE Lab SmartFlow
more social-networking information
emphasis

Social Desktop Internal MS MSR project to integrate ? Demonstrated More Social


codename social networking and online at TechFest Desktop
is/was "Tattoo" sharing more directly into 2009 in information
PC-client experience February
2009

SONGO ? “Search on the Go” ? Demonstrated More SONGO


search/ad cache for mobile at TechFest information
devices 2010 in
March 2010

Spindex ? FUSE Lab project similar in ? Invitation- More Spindex


concept to FriendFeed social only test information
aggregation service period kicked
off in early
May 2010

StartKey ? Windows and/or Windows ? Beta was More StartKey


Live settings on a thumb slated for late information
drive 2008. No
word on
if/when it
happened

Stirling Microsoft Integrated business security Delayed by a year; now Integrated More Stirling
Forefront suite, comprised of Client will be delivered in pieces management information
Protection Security, Server Security from late 2009 to early console
family and Edge Security and 2010 (Forefront
Access solutions, plus a Protection
unified management Manager)
console. Forefront EndPoint killed in April;
Protection client beta client piece
delivered in July 2010 moved to
System
Center team
in May

Stout ? Microsoft Research/UC San ? Researchers More Stout


Diego project; adaptive presented information
interface for scalable cloud info at Usenix
storage 2010 in June

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Strata Windows Azure Microsoft's Cloud operating Mirosoft to begin charging Ongoing More Strata
environment. "Strata" users for Azure as of Feb. updates to information
originally referred to the Red 1, 2010 Azure being
Dog operating system layer, incorporated
plus the Live Services layer regularly
(of which .Net Services was
the key piece). Now the Live
Framework is gone from
Azure, as are pieces of .Net
Services

Swivel Swivel (?) Another mysterious Microsoft ? Microsoft More Swivel


trademark for something applied for information
mobile-related. Could be a trademark
search brand or maybe even
the final potential name for
the Pink phone/services.
Who knows?

Sydney ? IPSec/IPV6-based 2011 (?) Beta slated More Sydney


technology for securely for 2010 information
connecting on-premises and (probably
cloud servers. Incorporates October)
Geneva federated identity
capabilities (somehow)

Tahiti ? Microsoft's family of multi- 2010+ (different times for Some More Tahiti
core deliverables -- different technologies) elements, like information
everything from libraries to PLINQ,
operating systems Concurrent
Runtime,
CCR/DSS in
testing now

Titan Windows Titan is said to be the If Titan is Embedded More Titan


Embedded successor to Win Mobile 6.x; Handheld, first version information
Handheld not clear if it’s the same as due out in second half
Embedded Handheld (a 2010; Embedded
combo of Win Mobile and Compact 7 version in
Embedded Compact) second half 2011

Trebuchet ? High-level, cross-lab “Gen 4” datacenters are Pieces, like More


strategy for making being built in 2010 Monsoon, are Trebuchet
datacenter infrastructure and in the works information
services more scalable. May now
be connected to the "Gen 4"
datacenter initiaves

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Tribeca ? GRC (Governance, Risk and ? In beta as of More Tribeca
Compliance) guidance January 2009 information
documentation

UCop ? Utility co-processor ? Researchers More UCop


middleware project from MS shared info information
Researc h; goal is to speed on UCop at
up desktop applications Usenix 2010
using cloud infrastructure in June

Uno ? Compliance-management ? In test as of More Uno


Solution Accelerator late 2008; information
new build out
in fall 2009

Vail ? Next major release of Late 2010 (?) Beta released More Vail
Windows Home Server in late April. information
Release
Candidate
due
August/Sept.
2010

Vedea ? Visualization language for ? Test build More Vedea


programming newbies from expected in information
Microsoft Research early 2010

Vine Vine (?) Twitter-like notification ? In incubation More Vine


service. Originally developed now; test information
by the Windows Live team version
released in
2009

Viveri ? Sandbox site for Microsoft to ? Demonstrated More Viveri


test new search concepts at TechFest information
2009 in
February

Volta Originally Cloud programming toolset Status unknown. Developer More Volta
codenamed somewhat akin to Google's Removed from Microsoft's preview information
Tesla. Current GWT Web site in fall 2007 with released late
incarnation may no further update 2007
be Reactive
Extensions for
.Net

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Windows 8 Windows 8 Successor to Windows 7 Late 2011 (if they Milestone 1 More Windows
underpromise/overdliver); and working 8 information
otherwise by mid 2012 feature list
(according to the latest out to OEMs
leaks) now

Windows 8 Windows Server Successor to Windows Late 2011 (if they ? More Windows
Server 2011/2012 (?) Server 2008 R2 underpromise/overdliver); 8 Server
otherwise by mid 2012 information
(according to the latest
leaks)

Windows Live Windows Live Next versions of add-on Late June beta for WL Testers have More Windows
Wave 4 services like Hotmail, Essentials; Hotmail being had access to Live Wave 4
Messenger, LiveWriter, etc. rolled out starting June early versions information
15. Final versions of all of some
expected by fall 2010 services, like
Messenger
and Office
Web Apps,
since latter
half of 2009

Windows Mobile Windows Phone Major release of Microsoft's Announcement expected RTM of OS More Windows
7 (formerly OS 7.0 mobile phone OS for in October; first WP7 could be late Mobile 7
known as Windows Phone 7 Series phones coming to Europe summer 2010 information
Photon) devices. Touch/gesture in October 2010 and U.S.
recognition and more in November 2010
consumer-focused features
expected

Windows Server Will be part of One key to moving existing Second half of 2011 Demonstrated More Win
App-V Virtual Machine applications to the cloud at Tech Ed Server App-V
Manager v.Next 2010 in June information

WinWESS ? The tweaked Windows ? ? More


Server core upon which WinWESS
Essential Business Server information
and Small Business Server
are based. Unclear whether
Microsoft will license this
core at some point to other
OEMs

Xdrive Windows Azure Tool for creating automatic ? Beta released More Xdrive
Drive backups of apps to be in early information
moved to Windows Azure February
cloud OS 2010

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xRM ? Microsoft's "relationship No word on whether Being used by More xRM
management" current platform is "final" software and information
software/service platform. or "beta" services
Similar to Salesforce.com's developers
Force.com inside and
outside of MS
now.

XYZ ? The new codename for the Could debut as part of In incubation More
"MinSafe" Windows managed Windows 8 around 2011 now information on
code work being done by XYZ
Mark Russinovich/Jon
DeVaan & Co.

Zune HD2 ? Successor to Zune HD that is Holiday 2010 (?) ? Source reports
more like an iPod Touch only so far

Zurich ? .Net Services plus identity On-premises version of Cloud version More Zurich
services layer of Azure. Not AppFabric to go final in of AppFabric information
clear if/how identity services 2010; remaining Geneva to go to
fits into AppFabric or not identity components to go testers in
final in 2010, too 2010

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