{"id":102724,"date":"2019-07-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=102724"},"modified":"2019-07-22T16:58:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T23:58:37","slug":"20190722-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20190722-00\/?p=102724","title":{"rendered":"What was the code name for Windows 7?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/blog\/tr-dojo\/video-whiteboard-microsoft-code-names-explained\/\"> retrospective on Windows code names<\/a> gave Blackcomb as the code name for Windows\u00a07. That&#8217;s not quite correct.<\/p>\n<p>The code name for Windows\u00a07 was\u2026 <i>Windows\u00a07<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Windows\u00a0XP was code named <i>Whistler<\/i>, which was the name of a city in British Columbia best known for its ski resort, also commonly referred to as Whistler. During this time, the code name given to &#8220;The version of Windows to come after Whistler&#8221; was <i>Blackcomb<\/i>, which is the name of a second mountain in the same resort, slightly further down the road.<\/p>\n<p>However, so much work had been pushed into the Blackcomb release that it was clear that it couldn&#8217;t all be done in one release cycle, so selected portions were extracted into an interim release code named <i>Longhorn<\/i>, which is the name of a bar situated between the Whistler and Blackcomb mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Longhorn was the code name for Windows Vista.<\/p>\n<p>You might conclude, therefore, that Blackcomb was the code name for Windows\u00a07.<\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;d be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>So much work had been postponed into the Blackcomb project that it wasn&#8217;t so much a project as a wish list.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Whistler: Learn to play <i>F\u00fcr Elise<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Longhorn: Learn to play <i>Tr\u00e4umerei<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Blackcomb: Learn to play all of Beethoven&#8217;s piano sonatas, both of Brahms&#8217;s piano concerti, and while you&#8217;re at it, Ravel&#8217;s <i>Gaspard de la nuit<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The scope of work that was marked as &#8220;Blackcomb&#8221; was so large that it was effectively meaningless.<\/p>\n<p>So it was all thrown out, and a new project started from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>That project was code named Windows\u00a07, based on the fact that Windows Vista&#8217;s programmatic version number was 6.0, and since this was the version to come next, the natural choice would be to call the next version 7.0. (Though that&#8217;s not what it ultimately shipped as.)<\/p>\n<p>It was generally understood that this was just a code name, and the marketing department would give it a splashy name when the time came.<\/p>\n<p>And when that time came, the marketing department decided that the splashy name was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mac_OS_X_10.2\"> just the code name we&#8217;d been using all along<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How anticlimactic.<\/p>\n<p>Windows\u00a07 released to manufacturing ten years ago today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-102724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Windows 7.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}