Windows "Odyssey" was the codename of the beta version of Windows 2000 Advanced Server that was in the early stages of development by Microsoft during 1999. It was billed as the follow-up to Windows 2000, and was to be aimed at the business sector of the market. The project was later cancelled and later combined with Windows Neptune to create Windows XP in early 2000.[1][2]
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In early 2000, Microsoft merged the team working on Odyssey with that developing Windows Neptune (Beta Version of Microsoft Windows 2000 Home Edition), a consumer version of Windows 2000. The combined team worked on a new project codenamed Whistler,[3][4] which was later released as Windows XP.[5]
While there was one alpha build of Neptune, 5111, released to testers,[6] no version of Odyssey was ever released.[7] Paul Thurrott once suggested that it "would have been called Windows NT 6.0 had Microsoft not messed with the naming in late 1998",[8] whereas unnamed sources cited by ZDnet referred to it as "NT 5.5".[2]
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References[]
- ↑ "Building their future on Windows 2000". Computer Weekly. February 24, 2000. Retrieved 2010-01-06.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Microsoft makes Windows detour". ZDNet. January 25, 2000. Retrieved 2010-01-06.
- ↑ "Microsoft combines Neptune, Odyssey into Whistler". CNN. January 27, 2000. Retrieved 2010-01-06.
- ↑ "Microsoft consolidates Windows development efforts". ZDNet. January 25, 2000. Retrieved 2010-01-06.
- ↑ "Windows XP Preview". TweakTown. August 21, 2001. Retrieved 2010-01-06.
- ↑ "Microsoft Cancels Neptune, Readies 'Whistler'". betanews. January 25, 2000. Retrieved 2010-01-07.
- ↑ Windows XP: The Road to Gold on Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows
- ↑ http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/2000_old.asp
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