In Pictures: Microsoft codenames, a visual history
In its 37 years, Microsoft has not only created technologies that have shaped our world, it has also offered up some of the most memorable codenames in the tech business.
Thunder (Visual Basic 1.0)
Visual Basic 1.0 went under the codename Project Thunder until its release for Windows at the Comdex/Windows World trade show in 1991. A version for DOS would follow in 1992. Visual Basic combined the Ruby drag-and-drop interface generator (no relation to the Ruby programming language) designed by Alan Cooper and his company Tripod with the Embedded BASIC engine that Microsoft had designed for an abandoned database system codenamed Omega.
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