• June 20, 2001 •
Microsoft Names "Whistler" Server Family: Windows .NET Server
By: Arie Slob
In his keynote address to corporate customers and partners at TechEd 2001, Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., revealed that Microsoft's enterprise server products, previously code-named "Whistler," will be released under the name Windows .NET Server.
Last April, in an address to Gartner, Inc. "Windows 2000 and Beyond" conference, John Enck, Gartner's research director of server strategies, revealed that Microsoft's enterprise server products, previously code-named "Whistler," would be released under the name Windows 2002.
But soon after there was some information comming from Microsoft which indicated that the company had not yet agreed on a final name for "Whistler".
In February, Microsoft announced the official product name of Windows XP, the company's next-generation desktop operating system, which had previously shared the Whistler code name with the server products.