Codename Blackcomb changed to Vienna?
January 20th, 2006 by 
Patrick S
Codename Blackcomb was internal codename first talked about in 2001 I think. It would be the succesor of Windows XP and .NET server (codename Whistler). Later Microsoft decided to create a small in between version of Windows codename Longhorn.
Longhorn is a bar in the Whistler ski-resort between the mountains Whister and Blackcomb.Well we know Longhorn turned out to be a major Windows release, which is over 5 years of development. Blackcomb is still the next major release of Windows after Longhorn (Vista) but first Longhorn “R2? Windows editions will be released.Anyway, on the Channel 9 forum, Robert Scoble comments that the codename Blackcomb is changed to “Vienna”
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3 Comments »
January 20th, 2006 at 12:50 am
Well… NT 4.0 Was codenamed Cairo so.. I guess another city name would make sense.. but why Vienna?
January 20th, 2006 at 5:47 am
Yea Why not Kuala Lumpur? 😛
January 20th, 2006 at 7:26 am
Ha Ha Ha….Hmmm i wonder who get paid some amazingly huge sum of money to think of the code names.