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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- 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 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 /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 in August information 2008 R2, includes 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 version of OS Cambridge and ETH Zurich downloadable information researchers as of September 2009

All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo Foley 3 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 HD, 201 plus third party products)

4 All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo Foley 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/ 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

All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo Foley 5 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 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

6 All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo Foley 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 -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 A -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 ? 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

All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo Foley 7 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 . 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

8 All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo Foley 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

All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo Foley 9 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

10 All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo Foley Windows Phone Based on the Zune HD and Holiday 2010 (launch Included in More Metro 7 UI 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 2003 and SQL Server 2005

All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo Foley 11 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 users 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 New gesture-focused game November 4, 2010 Soft launched More Natal controlling camera for 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

12 All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo 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 ) 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

All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo Foley 13 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/ 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

14 All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo 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

All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo Foley 15 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

16 All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo 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

All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo Foley 17 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

18 All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo Foley 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 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

All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo Foley 19 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 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 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

20 All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary Jo Foley 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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