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Microsoft codenames are given by Microsoft to products it has in development before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves. Many of these products (new versions of Windows in particular) are of major significance to the IT community, and so the terms are often widely used in discussions before the official release.
The Berkeley Fast File System superblock format is identified as either 19 54 01 19 or 01 19 54 depending on version; both represent the birthday of the author, Marshall Kirk McKusick. The Master Boot Record of bootable storage devices on almost all IA-32 IBM PC compatibles has a code of 55 AA as its last two bytes.
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Duplicate code names are not that big a deal. Microsoft does not have a very deep sense of its own history. Product managers (who make up code names) don't really care about code names that are decades old or in other divisions. Every time a new VP comes along the naming scheme changes too. SchmuckyTheCat In this case it has been, and rightly so.
The Shared Source Initiative (SSI) is a source-available software licensing scheme launched by Microsoft in May 2001. [1] The program includes a spectrum of technologies and licenses, and most of its source code offerings are available for download after eligibility criteria are met.
Windows code pages are sets of characters or code pages (known as character encodings in other operating systems) used in Microsoft Windows from the 1980s and 1990s. Windows code pages were gradually superseded when Unicode was implemented in Windows, [citation needed] although they are still supported both within Windows and other platforms, and still apply when Alt code shortcuts are used.
The terminology, however, is different: What others call a character set, HP calls a symbol set, and what IBM or Microsoft call a code page, HP calls a symbol set code. HP developed a series of symbol sets, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] each with an associated symbol set code, to encode both its own character sets and other vendors’ character sets.
Mega Limited released the source code to their client-side software around 28 January 2017 under an own license on github.com. [32] [33] MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 Microsoft: 1982 2018 Yes Yes Yes MIT: On 25 March 2014 Microsoft made the code to MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 available to the public under a Microsoft Research License for educational purposes.