Planned to be a major upgrade for Windows 2000 and Windows 98 (later Windows Me), merged with Odyssey to form Whistler. Windows 2000 did not have a codename because, according to Dave Thompson of Windows NT team, " Jim Allchin didn't like codenames". Named after the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.Ī cancelled project that would have fulfilled Bill Gates' "Information at your fingertips" vision. Is also the name of a script that sets up the Windows NT development environment. ME stands for Millennium Edition Microsoft states that it is pronounced Me. Codename was reused for Internet Explorer 4.0 and Windows Desktop Update which incorporated many of the technologies planned for Nashville. Cancelled upgrade for Windows 95 sometimes referred to in the press as Windows 96. A writer for Maximum PC suggested that "Detroit" and other Windows 95-era names were answers to the question posed by Microsoft's " Where do you want to go today?" marketing campaign. Along with Win32s, this was one of the first steps towards moving the Windows desktop to a 32-bit code base.įor codenames of some of the internal components of Windows 95, see "Jaguar", "Cougar", "Panther" and "Stimpy" under § OS components. It included a 32-bit TCP/IP stack (when running on compatible hardware). This release was a mixture of a 32 bit kernel, supporting 32 bit device drivers, and 16-bit Windows for the upper OS layers.
Windows 3.1 ( 16-bit) with enhanced networking designed to work particularly well as a client with the new Windows NT. Operating systems Windows 3.x and 9x CodenameĬombined bundle of Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 5.
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