Windows veep Steven Sinofsky isn’t one for fancy codenames. During his reign as head of Microsoft’s Office team Sinofsky willingly adhered to the convention that each edition of the suite would be known only by its version number until an official marketing moniker was chosen – for example, Office 12 became Office 2007.
One of Sonofsky’s earliest decisions when he was elevated to the role of Senior Vice President for Windows in Microsoft’s post-Vista cleanup was to axe ‘Vienna’, the cypher which was to represent the next version of Windows.
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