Codenames
This is one Microsoft fixation that has kept me constantly intrigued. I must say that it takes some amount of creativity to come up with the kind of uber cool codenames that guys at Microsoft come up with. Some of them have been in public memory for sometime, while some others are still catching up. Here's my list of super cool Microsoft Codenames:1. The Pocket PC OS/Windows Mobile series - Rapier,Merlin, Stinger, Magneto,Photon. For those who haven't yet realised it as yet, these are some of the X Men ( duh!)
2. The Visual Studio Series - Rainier,Everett, Whidbey, Orcas - all towns in increasing order of distance from Redmond in the Northwest direction
3. Visual J++ - Jakarta. Insider joke. Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia, located on the island of java
4 . Exchange 2003-Titanium. While the name sounds very mundane, the funda behind it is quite cool. Titanium is twice as strong as steel while half its weight. So exchange was intended to be twice as secure as 2002 but half its size, etc
5. Windows CE .NET - Talisker - the only whisky distillery on the Island of Skye. ( The rest of them are for Skye Vodka)
6. The SQL CE series of codenames - Daytona,Laguna, Kahuna - beaches in the US
7. Layer for Unicode - Godot- perfectly apt name. From the play "Waiting for Godot". Godot is the central character of this play based on the endless wait for him. Get the drift .. :)
8. Obvisously nothing can beat Whistler, Longhorn and Blackcomb...
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