Windows Nashville
No assistance was ever provided. Nashville (previously Cleveland) was the code name for a canceled Windows 95 operating system upgrade that was supposed to be delivered in January 1996 as Windows 96. Windows Nashville is a pre-release version of Windows that came before Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98. It is the first shell to include Internet Explorer “integration” features. It resembles Windows 95 RTM for the most part. It comes with a beta version of Microsoft’s “Athena” Personal Information Manager, menus that “zoom,” and lingering over an icon that turns it into an underlined hyperlink.
Nashville was designed to provide a bridge between Windows 95 and what would become Windows 98. Instead, only the core of Internet Explorer 3 was included with the Windows 95 upgrade, and the remainder was added to Windows 98.
Windows Cairo
From 1991 to 1996, a project at Microsoft was known as Cairo. Its mission was to create technology for a next-generation operating system that would allow Bill Gates’ vision of “knowledge at your fingertips” to become a reality. Cairo made information available quickly and effortlessly across a global network of computers using distributed computing techniques. The first design work on the Cairo user interface was used to create the Windows 95 user interface. Windows NT 3.1 included DCE/RPC. Internet Information Server and Windows Desktop Search now include content indexing.
The object file system is the final component. It was originally intended to be included in Windows Vista as WinFS, but development was halted in June 2006, and some of its features were incorporated into other Microsoft products such as Microsoft SQL Server 2008. In addition, the code name “Katmai” was used for this.
Windows Neptune
Neptune was the code name for a Microsoft Windows version that was under development in 1999. It was to replace the Windows 9x series and was to be the first home consumer-oriented version of Windows built on Windows NT technology, based on Windows 2000. Only one alpha build of Neptune, 5111, was made available to testers under a non-disclosure agreement and was later distributed to beta collectors’ sites and virtual museums in 2000. Other Neptune builds are known to exist because of information found in Windows ME and Windows XP beta builds.
Microsoft merged the Neptune team with the team working on Windows Odyssey, the successor to Windows 2000 for business users, in early 2000.
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