Talk:Blackcomb

Windows
Blackcomb waqs not a codename for Windows 7, it was for Windows 8. Windows 7 is technically a minor update of Vista (it was origoinally planned to be named Vista SE) annd Blackcomb was planned long before there was even a plan to release this minor update. MS was way behind it's timeline in the Vista development, so they released an unfinished Vista, which lacks many features and has many bugs and is slow. So MS alos decided to release an update, which was later known as Windows 7, when they decided to release the unfinished Vista. Blackcomb was originally planned as a major update for Whistler (later known as XP) and to be released in 2005. You can read about this here (you'll have to scroll down about 2/3 of the page). This is also why they called XP Whistler and 2008 Blackcomb: they were both named after the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort. Later they found out, that the development of Blackcomb would take much löonger, then originally planned, so they decided to make an interim release, which they gave the codename Longhorn and it is now known as Vista. When they found out, that they must release a quite unfinished Vista, because the development took to long, they startet to develop and update for Vista and called it Vienna and later renamed to 7. --MrBurns (talk) 18:45, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

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I removed this super long nondab

"A code name used by Microsoft for a future version of Windows. At the time, Blackcomb was used in pairing with the code name Whistler (taken from the names of the two peaks at the nearby Whistler Blackcomb resort), with Whistler as the designation for the release at hand, and Blackcomb for the following release. While Whistler did eventually become Windows XP, before work on any operating system designated as Blackcomb could be started, the code name Longhorn was inserted into the sequence (named for the pub that sits in Whistler Village at the base of the two mountains).  Longhorn became Windows Vista; however, by the time that that operating system was released, the set of mountain-based code names had been scrapped in favor of a simpler number-based scheme starting with Windows 7, meaning that no operating system has been released with the code name of Blackcomb."

70.29.210.242 (talk) 21:39, 19 February 2010 (UTC)