A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Tolesto I?m resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft?s myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others (hopefully) will be brand-new.
Microsoft code namesoffer some great clues about the Redmondians? development priorities, not to mention a better understanding of which future Microsoft products fit together, from a strategy standpoint. And not every product group is moving to boring, numbered codenames (like Windows 7 and Office 14).
Without further ado, let the codename games begin.
Microsoft code name of the day: Tolesto
Best guess on what it is: The ?core? subset of Microsoft?s Common Language Runtime (CLR)
Meaning/context of the code name: Tolesto is one of three moons that orbit Saturn. (I wonder whether Microsoft has codename plans for the other two, Calypso and Tethys.) If the Core CLR is Tolesto, perhaps the full CLR is Saturn? And Silverlight is the ring around Saturn?? Just guessing here, obviously.Continue At Source
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