Get your 16-page list of Microsoft’s morphing codenames
June 5th, 2009
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2990
All about Microsoft から 16ページの PDF をダウンロードすると、おびただしい数のコードネームが並んでいますが、その中で興味のあるものを抜き出してみました。 詳細は、(サブスクライブが必要ですが)上記の URL から ど~ぞ。
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Axum
(formerly codenamed Maestro); final name: ?
Domain-specific language for concurrent programming. Built on top of Microsoft’s CCR engine
In internal incubation now
Azurelight
Cloud-based product support service
Source code and documentation due this summer on MSDN
In development
Bing
The new and rebranded Live Search
Worldwide rollout completed June 3
The core engine and its various vertical components are got a refresh
BlueDB
Could this be one of the early codenames of the data-storage layer in the Azure OS? (Similar to Cosmos?) That’s my latest guess….
Azure OS is in beta and being used by a few existing Microsoft services. Final release slated for second half 2009
Cosmos
Storage/file system layer component of Microsoft’s Red Dog cloud (Azure) OS platform
Cosmos is part of Microsoft’s foundational Azure platform and not a standalone product/service
The Azure OS in beta now and slated to go final in the second half of 2009
Geneva
An identity metasystem including a new security token service and Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) version 2.0
Latter half of 2009
First test release delivered late October; Beta 1 due in first
Kobe (Narumoto Special)
Web 2.0 service development kit; has met with some internal criticism for not making good use of ASP.Net
First test release out in April; update expected "shortly"
Huron
"Cloud-based data hub" based on SQL Data Services plus Sync Framework. One of the projects of SQL Services Labs
Microsoft seeking more private testers in April 2009
Kumo (Bing)
One of the new brand names considered for Live Search. (Kumo means "cloud" or "spider" in Japanese). Kumo became the final codename for "Bing" before Microsoft launched its new search engine
Worldwide rollout completed June 3, 2009
Microsoft registered the trademark and pointed some domains to Kumo in late 2008. Internal Microsoft tests of Kumo started March 2009.
M (was formerly codenamed D)
Microsoft’s Oslo modeling language
Will be folded into future version of Visual Studio (probably 2010)
Updated CTP of Oslo SDK released in January. New CTP out in May
Midori
Concurrent, distributed operating system which could be the successor to Windows
Post-2011 (if and when it comes out of incubation)
Oslo Repository
Integrated repository at the crux of Microsoft’s Oslo modeling strategy
Final will be integrated into a future Visual Studio release (maybe VS 2010)
First CTP test build out in late October; refreshed Oslo CTP out in January; update released in May
Red Dog
Windows Azure
The lowest level OS piece of Microsoft’s cloud environment. Similar to Amazon’s EC2.
Second half of 2009
In beta now
Sitka
SQL Data Services
Once viewed as Microsoft’s equivalent to Amazon’s SimpleDB. Now looking more like Microsoft-hosted SQL Server
Test builds distributed starting spring 2008. New revised test build expected in mid-March at Mix ‘09
Strata
Windows Azure
Microsoft’s Cloud operating environment. "Strata" refers to the Red Dog operating system layer, plus the Live Services layer
Latter half of 2009
First CTP tests began in fall 2008
Velocity
Distributed, in-memory caching solution
CTP version 3 released in April 2009
Windows 7
Successor to Windows Vista
General availability: October 22, 2009. Volume licensees likely to get code this summer
RTM now looking like mid- to late-July
Windows 7 Server (Windows Server 2008 R2)
Successor to Windows Server 2008
General availability: October 22, 2009. Volume licensees likely to get it this summerRTM now looking like mid- to late-July
Windows 8
Successor to Windows 7
2011 (if they stick to their every-two-year schedule)
Microsoft moving into early coding/hiring stages now
Windows 8 Server
Windows Server 2011 (?)
Successor to Windows Server 2008 R2
2011 (if they stick to their current every-two-year schedule)
Microsoft moving into early coding/hiring stages now
Zurich
.Net Services plus identity services layer of Azure
Part of Azure platform (the final release of which is due in latter half of 2009)
Milestone 5 test build out in late March 2009 of the .Net Services component