Windows Blackcomb re(code)named Vienna
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Microsoft confirmed Friday that it has changed the codename for the next version of Windows beyond Vista, though it revealed little else.
"The codename for Blackcomb has changed to "Vienna" . . . [but] this does not reflect a big change for us [because] we have used city code names in the past," a Microsoft spokeswoman said in an e-mail statement.
For instance, Windows 95 was codenamed "Chicago." More recently, Microsoft had settled on ski resort names as monikers. Windows XP was previously codenamed "Whistler" for a ski area just north of Seattle in British Columbia, Canada.