The picture that is visible here may look unfamiliar but still there is an amount of familiarity to it. It somewhat resembles the screen we use to login to our respective systems that contain Microsoft Windowsxp. And it is not a screenshot from the upcoming version of windows. I sure will be talking about that soon enough here only but not now. This actually is a screenshot of the welcome screenshot of windows whistler and to tell the tale of whistler I must again press the rewind button. To the turn of the millennium this time (my readers (if any) might be thinking that I love to live in the past but this is a story I want to build upon right from the beginning.) So coming back to the year 2000 mid-January 2000 actually I refer to a news item on the internet "Neptune and Odyssey canceled for whistler".
Neptune and odyssey actually were 'would be' versions of Windows NT targeted at home and business users respectively. Windows Me had proven to be a sort of a nightmare for Microsoft. It had too many compatibility and stability problems to be usable and also it marked the end of the windows 9x series targeted at home users.
Before whistler Microsoft Windows was divided into two platforms NT for business users and 9x for home users. NT versions were found to be more stable and less user friendly. Odyssey intended to bring this stability to the user friendliness of 9x platform. Neptune was an upgrade to Windows 2000. But as both these projects were employing NT technology so these were merged under a common code name whistler which was to replace the windows 9x platform with the rock solid NT base while maintaining the user friendliness.
Whistler also introduced a new visual style to windows known as Luna. And if you are guessing where actually to get this version then it's my job to tell you that whistler was just a code name and its different from the final name of windows.
Actually every version of windows goes through a development cycle. In the first or alpha phase which is available only to the developers at Microsoft all versions of windows are referred by their code name. Then come the beta stages by the time final name for the windows version is declared and its beta or pre release versions are made available on the internet for testing purposes. Then comes the final release which is made available through retailers.
So whistler which was code named after a mountain stayed for about a year and a half in development. Its look and feel undergone several changes was finally released as windows experience (xp for short) on October 25 ,2001.
Though this information is redundant for the coming posts in these I just wanted to tell that how a version of windows changes as it is developed like this original welcome screen of windows xp.
So till now the story has progressed to end of 2001 about 2 years. And until the second part of this series is done
Take care
J
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