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History Talk 0. Categories Microsoft lists Windows codenames. Universal Conquest Wiki. Windows 3. Windows for Workgroups 3. Along with Win32s , this was one of the first steps towards moving the Windows desktop to a bit code base. Pre-Win95 project from Goal was to add a bit virtual memory manager to Windows 3. Versions were internally dubbed "Windows 3. Internet Explorer , first shipped in Microsoft Plus!

The codename O'Hare ties into the Chicago codename for Windows O'Hare International Airport is the largest airport in the city of Chicago — in Microsoft's words, "a point of departure to distant places from Chicago". Named after Detroit, Michigan. A writer for Maximum PC suggested that "Detroit" and other Windows era names were answers to the question posed by Microsoft's "Where do you want to go today? The codename was the key to activating an easter egg in Windows Open the "Regional Settings" control panel; Go to the "Regional Settings" page; Hold the Control key and drag a line with the mouse cursor from Memphis, Egypt or maybe Cairo, codename of Windows NT 4 - the map is too small to tell to Memphis, Tennessee.

Still holding the Control key, drag another line from Memphis to Redmond, Washington; A window opens with the credits for Windows Windows Me.

Windows NT 3. Microsoft originally planned for NT 4. Microsoft project undergone from to Many features planned - for example, a brand new UI and an object oriented file system. Never released, although most of the technologies sans the object-oriented file system shipped as part of Win95 or WinNT. 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. Windows bit. Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs.

Windows Server R2. Whistler-Blackcomb resort; initially planned as an "interim release" between "Whistler" and "Blackcomb" which was "Vienna". Windows Home Server Virtualization update for Windows Server Windows Essential Business Server. Windows Azure. Windows cloud services platform. This page will provide you with the build numbers for both and versions so that it will be easier for support to assist you if you encounter issues.

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