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All About Microsoft:

CodeTrackerA monthly look at Microsofts codenames and what theyreveal about the direction of the company.


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All About Microsoft CodeTracker

Keeping track of Microsoft's myriad codenames is an (almost) full-time occupation. I know, as I

spend a lot of my work hours tracking down the latest names in the hopes of being able to betterkeep tabs on what's coming next from the Redmondians.

Each month, I'll be releasing an updated, downloadable version of the CodeTracker. I'll add new

codenames -- arranged in alphabetical order by codename -- of forthcoming Microsoft products

and technologies. I also will note timing changes (date slips, the release of a new test build, the

disappearance of a planned deliverable) for entries that are already part of the Tracker. Once

Microsoft releases the final version of a product or technology I've been tracking, I will remove it

from the Tracker. In that way, the CodeTracker will remain focused on futures.

(An aside about the Tracker: A question mark in place of an entry means I have insufficient

information to hazard even an educated guess about a particular category.)

If you have suggested new entries or corrections to existing ones, please drop me an e-mail at

mjf at microsofttracker dot com.

Thanks!

Mary Jo Foley, Editor, ZDNet's "All About Microsoft" blog

This Month's Theme: Big iron needs love, too

If you went by nothing but blog and publication headlines, you might think mobile phones and

slates are where all the innovation is these days. The latest news out of Microsoft with its

consumer ad-spending exuberance might lead you to think the same.

The reality is that theres a lot of behind-the-scenes movement on the high-end side of the house

in Redmond. This fall, there will be more news coming from Microsofts Technical Computing

Group that should be of interest to those building their own datacenters and distributed

computing clusters. This months update to my tracker includes codenames of a number of new

big iron projects at the company. Check out the new and updated entries for Dryad, MFx,

Nectar, Orleans, Quincy, TidyFS for more.


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Ive also added a number of updates on some of those aforementioned consumer technologies,

as well, including updates on Horizon, IE 9, Office 15 (with Lime and Limestone), the still-

rumored Zune HD2 and Wave 14 of the various Windows Live wares.

New to the codename dead pool this month is Quadrant, a piece of Microsofts Oslo modelingpuzzle. The associated M language is supposedly being refocused (whatever that means), but

isnt (yet) off the chart. IronRuby Microsofts implementation of the Ruby programming

language also is in limbo as of August.

Ive updated a number of links and due dates throughout the Tracker, as I do each month. So

without further ado, it's on to this month's Microsoft CodeTracker.

Codename ExpectedProduct Name

Description of the product Projected Due Date forfinal release

LatestMilestoneachieved

Addition

Alchemy ? The customizableshell/framework for

Embedded Compact builds

May be part of still-

unannounced mobile

devices under

development at Microsoft

? More Alc

informat

Aurora ? A small business appliancebuilt around Windows Server

2008 R2, includes Active

Directory functionality. Half

on-premises; half in cloud

2011 (?) Test buildreleased in

August

More Aurinformat

Axum (formerlycodenamed

Maestro); final

name: ?

Domain-specific language for

concurrent programming.

Built on top of Microsoft's

CCR engine

? In internal

incubation as

of 2009. New

build

supporting VS

2010 released

in mid-April

More Axu

informat

Azurelight ? Cloud-based product supportservice

Source code and

documentation was due

summer 2009 on MSDN

In

development

More

Azureligh

informat
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Barrelfish ? Multikernel OS project fromMicrosoft Research

Cambridge and ETH Zurich

researchers

? Early test

version of OS

downloadable

as of

September

2009

More

Barrelfish

informat

BizTalk vNext ? Successor to the BizTalkServer 2010 release of

Microsofts integration server

(which is due in 2010).

Original goal was to include

more Windows AppFabric

compatibility

Post-2011 BizTalk

Server 2010,

with

AppFabric

compatibility,

now due in

Q3 2010. No

update on

V.Next

More BizT

vNext

informat

BlueDB ? Sounds like, as of mid-May,this is still an active project

and not an early codename

for SQL Azure or Azure

storage. Not sure what it is,

other than a database-

futures effort

? ? More

Blue/dat

futures

informat

BPOS Lite A low-end version of MSBusiness Productivity Online

Suite (BPOS). Unclear if this

will be Microsoft

hosted/managed or hosted

by partners

? ? More BPO

Lite

informat

Bunker-V ? Microsoft Research project;focus is on improving

hypervisor security in the

cloud

? Paper

presented in

early June

2010 at MS

Research

summit

More Bun

informat

CamCube ? Microsoft Research project

investigating routerlessconnectivity for datacenter

servers

? Prototype

system exists(as of

summer

2010)

More

CamCubeinformat
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Chakra ? New JavaScript engine in IE9 2011 (?) Latest IE 9preview

released in

August. Beta

expected in

Sept. 2010

More Cha

informat

Chelan WindowsEmbedded

Compact 7

The next major release of

one of Microsoft's embedded

platforms (the one inside

phones and the Zune HD,

plus third party products)

Q4 2010 Public test

build released

in early June

201

More Che

informat

Colorado ? Client Computer Connectorframework common to the

Vail and Aurora (and

possibly also next version of

SBS). Also known as

extensibility SDK

2011 (?) Colorado SDK

went to

testers in

early August

More Col

informat

Commute UX ? Car info-tainment systemfrom Microsoft Research

? Demonstrated

at TechFest

2009 in

February

More

Commut

informat

ConfigurationManager v.Next

? Adds multiple device

management to Config

Manager product

Second half of 2011 Beta 1 made

available in

May 2010

More

Configur

Manager

v.Nextinformat

Cosmos ? Storage/file system layercomponent of Microsoft's

Red Dog cloud (Azure) OS

platform. Also described as

file system for Dryad

Cosmos is part of

Microsoft's foundational

Azure platform and not a

standalone

product/service

Windows

Azure went

commercial in

February

2010; all core

components

being

continually

updated

More Cos

informat
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Courier ? Theres another Courier not the dual-screen tablet

incubation that Microsoft

killed in April 2010 but a

synchronization

platform/service formobile/PCs from Microsoft

Research

? Been in

development

since 2008

More Cou

informat

Dallas ? Data as a service offeringbuilt on top of Azure

Q4 2010 Private CTP

test build

available in

November

2009; CTP3

due in August

2010

More Dal

informat

Denali SQL Server2011 or 2012

(?)

Version of SQL Server that

will follow SQL Server 2008

R2

? ? More Den

informat

Descry ? Open-source visualizationsamples and code

? Sample code

available on

CodePlex and

Mix Online

site starting

in February

2009

More Des

informat

Digital Lens ? MS Innovation Labs (Israel)tool for developers writing

apps that can be viewable by

those with vision

impairments

? Test version

downloadable

as of early

June 2010

More Dig

Lens

informat

Doloto ? Microsoft Research (and nowDev Labs) tool for making

Ajax page downloads faster

? Test version

available for

download as

of September

2009

More Dol

informat

Dorado Zune softwarefor the PC

Microsofts rough equivalent

to iTunes. Being updated to

support both Zune HD

players and Windows Phones

New version likely around

holiday 2010

Current

version

supports

Zune HD (and

other media

players)

More Dor

informat
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/two-microsoft-research-projects-worth-noting-microsofts-newport-and-another-courier/6089http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/two-microsoft-research-projects-worth-noting-microsofts-newport-and-another-courier/6089http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/dallas/http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/dallas/http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5288http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5288http://visitmix.com/Lab/Descryhttp://visitmix.com/Lab/Descryhttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-tool-helps-developers-create-programs-viewable-by-vision-impaired/6530http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-tool-helps-developers-create-programs-viewable-by-vision-impaired/6530http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-tool-helps-developers-create-programs-viewable-by-vision-impaired/6530http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3853http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3853http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5138http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5138http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5138http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5138http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3853http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3853http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-tool-helps-developers-create-programs-viewable-by-vision-impaired/6530http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-tool-helps-developers-create-programs-viewable-by-vision-impaired/6530http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-tool-helps-developers-create-programs-viewable-by-vision-impaired/6530http://visitmix.com/Lab/Descryhttp://visitmix.com/Lab/Descryhttp://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5288http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5288http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/dallas/http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/dallas/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/two-microsoft-research-projects-worth-noting-microsofts-newport-and-another-courier/6089http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/two-microsoft-research-projects-worth-noting-microsofts-newport-and-another-courier/6089


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Dryad ? Technology forwriting/running

parallel/distributed apps.

Similar to Googles

MapReduce and Apaches

Hadoop

2011 (running on top of

Windows Server HPC)

Transitioning

from research

to Tech

Computing

Group as of

summer2010. CTP1

due in Nov.

2010

More Dry

informat

DynamicDatacenterToolkit

System Center

Virtual Machine

Manager 2008

R2 Self Service

Portal 2.0

Private-cloud tools and

guidance for customers

(theres a partner version of

this toolkit as well). Runs on

Windows Server

2010 Release

candidate out

in summer of

2010

More Dyn

Datacent

Toolkit

informat

Dynamics CRM

5

Dynamics CRM

2011

Next version of Microsofts

on-premises and online CRM

products

Second half of 2010 for

online version; early 2011

for on-premises software

release

CTP 3

delivered in

March 2010;

public beta

due in Sept.

2010

More

Dynamic

5 inform

Dynamics NAV 7 ? Next version of MicrosoftsDynamics/NAV ERP platform

Originally due in 2010/11;

now in 2011/12

? More

Dynamic

7 inform

Echoes ? Platform for

distribution/delivery of LiveMobile services to Microsoft

groups and third-party

phone/IPTV providers

Target was mid-2008 to

carriers. No updated wordon status

Various

carriers andproviders

been testing

since spring

2008

More Ech

informat

Emporia ? A Twitter-viewing client fromMicrosoft FUSE Labs

? Public beta

with limited

functionality

commenced

in late May

More Pro

Emporia

informat

Experiment 19 ? Graphics component of theMenlo mobile project from

Microsoft research

? ? More

Experime

informat

Felix Microsoft OfficeDocs

A Facebook-centric version

of Office Web Apps from

Microsoft FUSE Labs

? Latest beta

refresh out in

August

More Fel

informat
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8/23


Florida Windows Intune Windows managementsoftware and service that

evolved from System Center

Online Desktop Manager

(SCODM codenamed

Jupiter)

Early 2011 Public beta

expanded in

July 2010

More Flo

informat

Gazelle ? A new, security-focusedbrowser from Microsoft

Research. (The former

codename was Mashup OS.)

Now superseded by

ServiceOS project

? Gazelle now

part of the

ServiceOS

project in

Microsoft

Research

More Gaz

informat

Geneva Active DirectoryFederation

Services;

Windows

Identity

Framework;

CardSpace

An identity metasystem. WIF

piece shipped in November.

Active Directory Federation

Services (ADFS) version 2.0

delivered in early May. Still

nothing new on CardSpace.

Various pieces shipping

over the next several

months through Q3 2010

ADFS 2.0

RTWd in

early May

More Gen

informat

Gestalt Gestalt (?) Library that allows coders touse Python and Ruby as

alternatives to the JavaScript

language in building

(X)HTML pages on PCs or

Macs. Silverlight is under the

covers

? Test version

available for

download as

of late July

2009

More Ges

informat

Glimmer ? A jQuery interactive designtool

? Test bits

posted on

MSDN in April

2009

More Glim

informat

Grava Semblio Educational add-in for Officethat is now morphing into a

service

? Shift from

software to

service

occurred in

April 2010

More Gra

informat

Greenfield ? Microsoft Research project.Sensor application built on

top of Menlo mobile

environment

? Prototype

demonstrated

summer 2010

More

Greenfie

informat
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9/23


Gustav ? Immersive digital paintingresearch project

? Research

project

demonstrated

at TechFest

2010 in

March 2010

More Gus

informat

Hawaii ? Microsoft Research project tocreate new cloud-centric

mobile apps and services.

Building blocks are Azure,

Win Live ID, Orion and other

Microsoft services

? 3 universities

currently

building

Hawaii

projects

More Haw

informat

Helios ? Microsoft Research project todevelop a satellite-kernel-

based operating system.

Built on top of the MSR

Singularity OS

? Internal

testing

More Hel

informat

Horizon Windows LiveSync

Microsoft's

collaboration/synchronization

service, formerly known as

Live Mesh

Part of Windows Live

Essentials (Wave 4) this

fall

Most of Live

Mesh

combined

with Windows

Live Sync;

beta refresh

out in August

More Live

Mesh

informat

Houston ? Browser-based Silverlightcontrol enabling direct

interaction with SQL Azure.

Goal is rapid cloud database

development

? CTP 1 went totesters in July

2010; refresh

in August

2010

More Houinformat

Huron Data SyncService for SQL

Azure and SQL

Azure Data

Sync

"Cloud-based data hub"

based on SQL Data Services

plus Sync Framework. One

of the projects of SQL

Services Labs

? Preview

versions of

these tools

released in

June

More Hur

informat

Hyper-V V3 ? Next version of Microsoftshypervisor virtualization

technology. V3 expected to

be available in both client

and server versions

2011/2012 (?) if part of

Windows 8/Windows

Server 8

? More Hyp

V3 inform
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10/23

10 All About Microsoft: Codename Tracker by Mary JoFoley

Ibiza SyncFramework

(formerly

codenamed

Harmonica)

Synchronization service for

online/offline scenarios;

designed especially for

taking Web services and

databases offline

Version 1 RTM'd in 2009;

Version 2 SDK and

redistributables are out

MS working

on taking

Sync

Framework

capabilities to

mobile andother

platforms

More Ibiz

informat

Incarnate ? Service for finding/reusingyour avatars from the Mix

Online Labs

? In test form

since early

2010

More

Incarnat

informat

InternetExplorer 9

Internet

Explorer 9

Next version of Microsofts

browser; will include more

HTML, CSS support, plus

hardware accelerated

graphics performance

2011 (?) 4 developer

previews

released to

date; Beta 1

due in mid-

Sept. 2010

More IE 9

informat

IronRuby IronRuby Microsofts .Net-focusedimplementation of the Ruby

language

Microsoft seems to be

looking to offload

IronRuby to CodePlex

Foundation or some other

outside entity

Version 1.1

released

summer of

2010

More Iro

informat

JSMeter ? Research project focused onanalyzing and altering

JavaScript benchmarks andengines

? New findings

to be

presented inJune 2010 at

Web Apps 10

conference

More JSM

informat

Kilimanjaro SQL Server2008 R2

BI-focused upgrade to SQL

Server 2008

May 2010 for all versions

except Parallel Data

Warehouse (expected

later in 2010)

RTMd April

21, 2010

More

Kilimanja

informat

KittyHawk Visual StudioLightSwitch

FoxPro-like RAD

development

tools/framework for line of

business apps

2011 First test

build

delivered in

August 2010

More

KittyHaw

informat
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11/23


Kobe ? Web 2.0 servicedevelopment kit; has met

with some internal criticism

for not making good use of

ASP.Net

? First test

release out in

April 2009

More Kob

informat

Lime ? A new productivityapplication to be added to

the Office suite as of Office

15

2013 (?) First Office 15

leaks hit the

Web in

August 2010.

No Lime in

there yet

More Lim

informat

Limestone ? User interface utility in Office14/15. For developers, not

end users

? In early

leaked Office

15 builds

More

Limeston

informat

Live Framework Live Framework(?)

Windows Live development

platform

? New Live SDK

delivered in

June 2010

More Live

Framewo

tools

informat

LongARM ? Rumored port of Vista to theARM processor. Latest word

is an ARM port of Windows is

looking like a Win8

deliverable

2011/2012 if Windows 8

is the new target

? More Lon

informat

M M (wasformerly

codenamed D)

Microsoft's Oslo modeling

language

Could be folded into

future version of Visual

Studio or other Microsoft

product. Word (as of

August 2010 is M is being

refocused

New CTP out

in November

2009.

More M

informat

MFx ManagebilityFramework

New management system

for Global Foundation

Systems datacenters.

Possible replacement for

Microsofts current AutoPilot

system

? ? More MFx

informat

Madison SQL Server2008 R2 Parallel

Data Warehouse

Edition

SQL Server data appliance

based on Data Allegro

technology

Expected later in 2010 Did not RTM

with the rest

of SQL Server

2008 R2

More Ma

informat
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12/23


Madison (2) ? Ad-funded version ofWindows

? ? More Ma

(2)

informat

MAUI MobileAssistance

Using

Infrastructure

Part of Microsoft Researchs

Hawaii Project, which is

focused on getting students

to build cloud-centric mobile

apps/services

? 3 universities

engaged so

far

More MA

informat

Menlo ? Research projectinvestigating a new mobile

interface/environment that

will work on a variety of

processors

? Menlo layer

on a mobile

phonein

prototype

phase as of

summer 2010

More Me

informat

Metro Windows Phone7 UI

Based on the Zune HD and

Windows Media Center UI

Holiday 2010 (launch

announcement sounds

like October 2010)

Included in

private OEM

builds of Win

Phone 7

More Met

informat

Miami HealthVaultCommunity

Connect

New SharePoint-based

component of Microsofts

HealthVault software/service

platform

Rolling out now (2010) Introduced at

the HIMSS

conference in

March 2010

More Mia

informat

Midori ? Concurrent, distributedoperating system which

could be the successor to

Windows

? Post-2011 (if

and when it

comes out of

incubation)

More Mid

informat

MinSafe New codenamemay now be

XYZ (?)

Related to RedHawk; the

Windows' side of an

incubated project to replace

Win32 with managed .Net

technologies

In development inside

Microsoft

First results

could be

integrated

into Windows

8

(2011/2012?)

More Min

informat
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13/23


MinWin MinWin Project to slim down theWindows core. Also refers to

the slimmed-down core itself

The MinWin concept is

influencing Windows

development thinking

already

MinWin is in

the Windows

7 main

branch; users

unlikely to

see MinWin"surfaced"

before

Windows 8

(2011/2012)

More Min

informat

Mojave R2 CommerceServer 2009 R2

Next update to Commerce

Server. Expected to be 64-

bit only and will possibly no

longer support Windows

Server 2003 and SQL Server

2005

Early 2010 Latest CTP

available in

May 2010

More Moj

R2 inform

Monsoon ? Network architecture forcommoditizing and scaling

datacenters

? Microsoft

white paper

implies this is

in

development

now

More Mo

informat

Morro MicrosoftSecurity

Essentials

Free anti-malware service;

successor to Live OneCare;

Downloadable for XP, Vista

and Windows 7 users

V1 delivered end of

September 2009. V2

expected before end of

calendar 2010

V2 test build

made

available in

July 2010

More Mo

informat

Mouse Mischief Mouse Mischief(?)

App for building PowerPoint-

based apps that builds on

the MultiPoint SDK. Aimed

primarily at students in

developing nations

Final due first half of 2010 Beta out in

January 2010

More Mo

Mischief

informat

Nano Touch ? MSR technology for addingtouch to small-screen

devices (including wearable

PCs). Successor to the Lucid

Touch project

? Demonstrated

at TechFest

2009 in

February

More Nan

Touch

informat

Natal Kinect New gesture-focused gamecontrolling camera for Xbox

360 (and someday, MS says,

PCs)

November 4, 2010 Soft launched

at E3 in June

More Nat

informat
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14/23


Nectar ? Microsoft Research-createddata-management tools for

distributed/clustered

servers. Related to Dryad

? Mentioned in

white papers

in summer of

2010; not

sure if

available inprototype

form

More Nec

informat

Newport ? Collaborative mobileapplication from Microsoft

Research for sharing photos,

notes, etc.

? ? More New

informat

Niagara Hohm Microsoft-hosted energy-management service. First in

a line of energy-related

software/services

? (was supposed to be out

in final form in late 2009)

Invitation-

only beta out

in late June

2009

More Nia

informat

Oahu ? Consumer-focused Surfacetabletop retailing for about

$1,500

? Microsoft

surveying

users about

interest; no

prototypes

yet

More Oah

informat

Office 15 ? Follow-on to Office 2010 Rumored date is 2013 Leaked earlybuild hit the

Web inAugust

More Off

informat

OfficeCommunicationsServer 14

Office

Communications

Server 2010 (?)

New version of Microsofts

unified comm. Platform and

the successor to OCS 2007

R2

Q4 2010 (for on-premises

version); early 2011 for

OCS Online with OCS 14

features

TAP testers

received code

in March

2010; no

word on

when/if a

public beta

will happen

More OC

informat

OfficeTalk ? Twitter for business (similarto Yammer) concept test

from Office Labs

? Microsoft

adding select

outside

testers to the

project as of

March 2010

More

OfficeTal

informat
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15/23


OneAlbum ? Face-recognition researchproject with uses across

Web-based photo galleries

Researchers

demonstrated

at TechFest

2010 in

March 2010

More

OneAlbu

informat

Orchard (the successorto Oxite)

Open-source CMS platform,

now owned by the

CodePlex Foundation and

staffed/backed by Microsoft

? Specs and

source

available as

of November

2009

More Orc

informat

Orleans ? Next-gen programmingenvironment for Azure;

similar to CLR for Windows

? Microsoft

Researchers

presenting on

Orleans work

during

summer 2010

More Orl

informat

Oslo BingSpring/Summer

2010 refresh

This isnt the MS modeling

platform (codenamed Oslo);

its the UX/UI for the Bing

Spring 2010 refresh

Rollout in U.S. began in

late March 2010; new

entertainment and UI

updates added in June

2010

No word on

if/when the

Oslo UI will

be adopted

by Bing

teams in

other

countries

More Osl

informat

Oslo Repository ? Integrated repository at thecrux of Microsoft's Oslo

modeling strategy. MS keeps

whittling away at what Oslo

is and will do

Final will be integratedinto a future version of

SQL Server

New testbuild out in

November

2009

More Oslrepositor

informat

Paris ? New Windows PresentationFoundation and Silverlight

controls for OCS 14; this

could be the Silverlight Web

client for OCS 14

Communicator

Q4 2010 OCS 2010 (or

whatever the

final name is)

still in private

testing only

More Par

informat

Pimento Zune Mobile Zune services for WindowsMobile devices. Expected to

include music/video

purchase, playback, sharing,

social-networking and more

Available for Windows

Phone 7 for Holiday 2010

Windows

Phone 7 test

devices go to

select devs in

July

More Pim

informat
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16/23


Ping Ping (?) Tool for sharing Bing searchresults

? Invitation-

only test

phase kicked

off in

September

2009

More Pin

informat

PlayAnywhere Mobile Surface Research project focused onenabling 3D interaction with

mobile devices using a

camera and a projector

? Researchers

demod at

TechFest

2010 in

March 2010

More

PlayAnyw

informat

Plex ? Office Labs' Virtual canvassoftware underlying

TouchWall and other future

productivity technologies

TouchWall is a 2019

thing; Plex is part of

prototypes

? More Ple

informat

Purple ? The UX, or userexperience)/interface, for

Pink. Could this refer to Loop

(?). If so, may appear in

some form with WP7 phones

Holiday 2010 (?) Microsoft

pulled plug on

Kin in late

June 2010

More Pur

informat

Quadrant ? Visual modeling tool; part ofthe Oslo trio of products

Final could be integrated

into a future Visual Studio

release Or is Quadrant

now tied to SQL Server?

Project

quietly killed

in summer

2010

More Qua

informat

Quant ? Cost model for patchmanagement; MS and

Securosis developing in

tandem. Results will be

available under Creative

Commons license

? White papers

and

information

available for

download

More Qua

informat

Quincy ? Microsoft Researchsscheduling system for

distributed clusters. Related

to Dryad

? White papers

mentioning

Quincy

available in

summer 2010

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informat

RearType ? Microsoft Research project toput keys on the back of

tablets/slates

? Prototypes

available for

demo

purposes

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17/23


Red Dog Windows Azure The lowest level OS piece ofMicrosoft's cloud

environment. Similar to

Amazon's EC2.

Microsoft began charging

for Red Dog on Feb. 1

2010

In beta since

fall 2008;

new updates

released

regularly

More Red

informat

RedHawk ? Microsoft incubation projectto replace Win32 with

managed code. One

expected deliverable: A

back-end compiler for Midori

Part of Windows 8/.Net 5

wave in 2011/2012 (?)

? More Red

informat

Rosetta ? Visitmix Labs training projectto help developers learn new

technologies based on skills

they currently have

? Current focus

of Project

Rosetta is to

help Flash

developers

learn

Silverlight

More Ros

informat

SBS 7 Small BusinessServer 2011 (?)

Next version of SBS,

featuring Windows Server

2008 R2, Exchange 2010,

SharePoint Foundation 2010.

On-premise product (Aurora

is its hybrid cloud-on-prem

cousin)

2011 (?) Public test

build due in

August 2010.

(Now looking

like

September)

More SBS

informat

Seahorse Pivot LiveLabs project using visualsearch to help users view

the Web as a web

? Invitation-only test

preview out

in November

2009

More Seainformat

Seawall ? Microsoft Research andCornell project looking at

ways to improve

multitenancy performance

and security in the cloud

? Researchers

presented

Seawall paper

at Usenix

2010 in June

More Sea

informat

Second Light Latestincarnation is

Mobile Surface

Microsoft Research project

that marries touch

technology with projection

technology. One of the

successors to MSR's Play

Anywhere technology.

? Mobile

Surface

demonstrated

at TechFest

2010 in

March

More Sec

Light

informat
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18/23


ServiceOS ? Microsoft Research projectthat is the successor to

Gazelle (browser-OS

mashup)

? Internal

prototype

exists inside

Microsoft

Research

More

ServiceO

informat

Sift Sift (?) Could be the name for anoperating system software

for mobile phones; computer

search engine software;

computer programs for

searching email, text

messages, address and

contact information.

? Microsoft's

trademark

attempt

"initially

refused" by

the PTO; not

clear if and

when

Redmond will

reapply

More Sift

informat

Sitka SQL Azure(formerly known

as SQL Data

Services)

Once viewed as Microsoft's

equivalent to Amazon's

SimpleDB. Now looking more

like Microsoft-hosted SQL

Server

Microsoft began harging

customers for it on Feb.

1, 2010

Ongoing

updates being

made

More Sitk

informat

Skinput ? Research project showinghow human body can be

used as an input surface

? Demonstrated

at TechFest

2010 in

March 2010

More Ski

informat

SkyBox My Phone Service for syncing phoneinformation across the Web;

similar to Apple's MobileMe.

Find My Phone service for

WP7is one piece of this

? Version 1.0for WM 6.x

released in

October 2009

Version 2.0

(paid

subscription)

was slated for

first half of

2010

More Skyinformat

SmartFlow ? Microsoft alternative to

Adobe LightRoom, but withmore social-networking

emphasis

Now a project of

Microsofts FUSE Lab

? More

SmartFloinformat
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19/23


Social Desktop Internal MScodename

is/was "Tattoo"

MSR project to integrate

social networking and online

sharing more directly into

PC-client experience

? Demonstrated

at TechFest

2009 in

February

2009

More Soc

Desktop

informat

SONGO ? Search on the Gosearch/ad cache for mobile

devices

? Demonstrated

at TechFest

2010 in

March 2010

More SO

informat

Spindex ? FUSE Lab project similar inconcept to FriendFeed social

aggregation service

? Invitation-

only test

period kicked

off in early

May 2010

More Spi

informat

StartKey ? Windows and/or WindowsLive settings on a thumb

drive

? Beta was

slated for late

2008. No

word on

if/when it

happened

More Sta

informat

Stirling MicrosoftForefront

Protection

family

Integrated business security

suite, comprised of Client

Security, Server Security

and Edge Security and

Access solutions, plus aunified management

console.Forefront EndPoint

Protection client beta

delivered in July 2010

Delayed by a year; now

will be delivered in pieces

from late 2009 to early

2010

Integrated

management

console

(Forefront

ProtectionManager)

killed in April;

client piece

moved to

System

Center team

in May

More Stir

informat

Stout ? Microsoft Research/UC SanDiego project; adaptive

interface for scalable cloud

storage

? Researchers

presented

info at Usenix

2010 in June

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21/23


Trebuchet ? High-level, cross-labstrategy for making

datacenter infrastructure and

services more scalable. May

be connected to the "Gen 4"

datacenter initiaves

Gen 4 datacentersare

being built in 2010

Pieces, like

Monsoon, are

in the works

now

More

Trebuche

informat

Tribeca ? GRC (Governance, Risk andCompliance) guidance

documentation

? In beta as of

January 2009

More Trib

informat

UCop ? Utility co-processormiddleware project from MS

Researc h; goal is to speed

up desktop applications

using cloud infrastructure

? Researchers

shared info

on UCop at

Usenix 2010

in June

More UC

informat

Uno ? Compliance-managementSolution Accelerator

? In test as of

late 2008;

new build out

in fall 2009

More Uno

informat

Vail ? Next major release ofWindows Home Server

Late 2010 (?) New beta

refresh out in

August 2010;

RC still to

come before

RTM

More Vai

informat

Vedea ? Visualization language forprogramming newbies from

Microsoft Research

? Test build

expected in

early 2010

More Ved

informat

Vine Vine (?) Twitter-like notificationservice. Originally developed

by the Windows Live team

? In incubation

now; test

version

released in

2009

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informat

Viveri ? Sandbox site for Microsoft totest new search concepts

? Demonstrated

at TechFest

2009 in

February

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Volta Originallycodenamed

Tesla. Current

incarnation may

beReactive

Extensions for.Net

Cloud programming toolset

somewhat akin to Google's

GWT

Status unknown.

Removed from Microsoft's

Web site in fall 2007 with

no further update

Developer

preview

released late

2007

More Vol

informat

Windows 8 Windows 8 Successor to Windows 7 Late 2011 (if theyunderpromise/overdliver);

otherwise by mid 2012

(according to the latest

leaks)

Milestone 1

and working

feature list

out to OEMs

now

More Win

8 inform

Windows 8Server

Windows Server

2011/2012 (?)

Successor to Windows

Server 2008 R2

Late 2011 (if they

underpromise/overdliver);

otherwise by mid 2012

(according to the latest

leaks)

? More Win

8 Server

informat

Windows LiveWave 4

Windows Live Next versions of add-on

services like Hotmail,

Messenger, LiveWriter, etc.

Final versions of all Wave

4 services expected by

fall 2010

Beta refresh

of Essentials

bundle out in

August 2010.

Hotmail Wave

4 still getting

updatesas of

August 2010

More Win

Live Wav

informat

Windows Mobile7 (formerlyknown asPhoton)

Windows Phone

OS 7.0

Major release of Microsoft's

mobile phone OS for

Windows Phone 7 Series

devices. Touch/gesture

recognition and more

consumer-focused features

expected

Announcement expected

in October; first WP7

phones coming to Europe

in October 2010 and U.S.

in November 2010

RTM of OS on

Sept. 1 2010

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Mobile 7

informat

Windows ServerApp-V

Will be part of

Virtual Machine

Manager v.Next

One key to moving existing

applications to the cloud

Second half of 2011 Demonstrated

at Tech Ed

2010 in June

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WinWESS ? The tweaked WindowsServer core upon which

Essential Business Server

and Small Business Server

are based. Unclear whether

Microsoft will license thiscore at some point to other

OEMs

? ? More

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informat

Xdrive Windows AzureDrive

Tool for creating automatic

backups of apps to be

moved to Windows Azure

cloud OS

? Beta released

in early

February

2010

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informat

xRM ? Microsoft's "relationshipmanagement"

software/service platform.

Similar to Salesforce.com's

Force.com

No word on whether

current platform is "final"

or "beta"

Being used by

software and

services

developers

inside and

outside of MS

now.

More xRM

informat

XYZ ? The new codename for the"MinSafe" Windows managed

code work being done by

Mark Russinovich/Jon

DeVaan & Co.

Could debut as part of

Windows 8 around 2011

In incubation

now

More

informat

XYZ

Zune HD2 ? Successor to Zune HD that ismore like an iPod Touch

2011 (?) ? More Zun

HD2

informat

Zurich ? .Net Services plus identityservices layer of Azure. Not

clear if/how identity services

fits into AppFabric or not

On-premises version of

AppFabric to go final in

2010; remaining Geneva

identity components to go

final in 2010, too

Cloud version

of AppFabric

to go to

testers in

2010

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informat
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