Windows XP?
Looks like Microsoft is playing with some new names for future products, looking to change Office 10 and Whistler to Office XP and Windows XP. People are speculating it stands for "experience" or "experienced", others say it's for the whole Microsoft .Net project since XP is also the name of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) for messaging that Microsoft and others have embraced. All in all, confusing while it shouldn't be?
On the Office side, Microsoft has been wrestling with what to call Office 10, as it is using the Office 2001 name for the forthcoming Mac version of its Office suite. Sources said that Microsoft also did not want to call Office 10 "Office.Net," since the Office 10 suite will be only loosely tied to the company's .Net strategy. Microsoft is, however, using the .Net naming convention with its forthcoming version of its Visual Studio tool suite, which the company has said it will call "Visual Studio.Net."
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