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Windows whistler destop5/27/2023 ![]() What was Longhorn? A bar that sits between the Whistler and Blackcomb mountains. ![]() And I was once again lucky enough to later reveal that “Longhorn” would be the name of that release. But then Microsoft realized it needed an interim release before it could deliver the major changes it planned for Blackcomb. So Blackcomb was originally supposed to follow Whistler. Windows “Whistler” build 2211 – A leaked alpha build from December 1999 ![]() At the time that the Whistler codename was chosen for the follow-up to Windows 2000, the Windows team also chose Blackcomb as the codename of the subsequent Windows version Blackcomb is of course a mountain and ski resort right next to Whistler. Windows XP will always have a special place in my heart because I was the one who first revealed that Microsoft’s codename for this next Windows version was “Whistler.” Here’s a peek at a Whistler news story I wrote in 2000 but never published, the first in an ongoing “Throwback Thursday” series.Īs a bit of background, Whistler is the name of a mountain and ski resort in British Columbia and is, as then, a favorite haunt of Microsofties.
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