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Neptune - the new Windows

News Neptune is slated as the follow-on to Millennium, the code name for the final version of Windows based on the Windows 9x kernel. Neptune will be Microsoft's first operating system to make use of the WinTone service that CEO Bill Gates outlined last...

[July 5, 1999, 8:35]

Neptune: Home hub of the future?

News But internal Microsoft documents viewed by Sm@rt Reseller and PC Week indicate that the company is also working on an adaptation kit for its consumer Windows version -- code-named Neptune -- that would allow third parties to develop their own "non...

[July 7, 1999, 9:11]

Microsoft makes Windows detour

News At the same time, Microsoft told developers it was working on an NT-kernel-based Consumer Windows release, code-named Neptune, but that it wouldn't hit store shelves until 2001 or 2002. Where the company had planned "Neptune," a consumer-oriented...

[January 25, 2000, 8:38]

Windows 2001 leaked on the Web

News In January, the company acknowledged that it had tabled work on "Neptune", a consumer version of Windows slated to follow Millennium, and on "Odyssey", an NT-kernel-based follow-on to Windows 2000. Instead, Microsoft said, it planned to merge the...

[March 22, 2000, 8:53]

Night Sky

Downloads This includes 20,000 stars (files with up to 50,071 stars available), the Messier catalog of deep space objects, the planets out to Neptune, the moon, and the sun. Night Sky 3.3 is a planetarium for Mac OS 10.2 'Jaguar'.

[July 17, 2003, 2:06]

MS goes to Mars for IE update

News Last week Microsoft confirmed that it has tabled its "Neptune" and "Odyssey" Windows updates, preferring to converge its code base around the NT kernel with a future version of Windows that is code-named "Whistler.

[February 1, 2000, 8:29]

Astronomy Guide for BlackBerry LS

Downloads Our Solar System, including Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, each with Distance from the Sun, Radius, Volume, Mass, Density, Surface Gravity, Escape Velocity, Sidereal Rotation Period, Sidereal...

[October 23, 2008, 8:00]

The Planets

Downloads Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The Planets is a one of a kind program that gives each user instant access to everything there is to know about the planets in our solar system.

[October 30, 2008, 5:29]

Sun steps up efforts on open-source chip

News It is our goal of eventually open-sourcing these Sparc processor designs," said David Yen, head of Sun's newly re-created microelectronics group, speaking of Niagara 2 and the Neptune networking chip derived from it.

[May 15, 2007, 16:59]

After Win2000, it's Whistler and Blackcomb

News While Microsoft publicly acknowledged the Whistler code name in late January, company officials first told its Windows development team at the very start of January about plans to merge the Windows releases formerly code-named "Neptune" and...

[February 10, 2000, 14:47]

Greek and Roman Mythology

Downloads Annotations and drawings are also synchronized.Table of ContentsAncient Greece: Overview | Art | Greek Mythology | Ancient Rome: Overview | Religion | Etruscan Mythology | Art | Roman Mythology | Romulus and Remus Greek Gods: Overview | Twelve...

[January 2, 2007, 6:00]

Windows 98 second edition?

News Windows 98 Second Edition will be the first of what could be several Windows 9x-kernel-based updates to Windows 98 before Microsoft delivers its first NT-kernel-based consumer Windows release, code-named Neptune.

[March 16, 1999, 12:09]

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Blog It's not the end, but it makes pretty good reading — I recommend you skip over to Groklaw where the incredibly patient PJ remains locked onto the case until it finally ends, like the Voyager space probe hurtling towards Neptune.

[June 30, 2006, 19:45]

WorldWide Telescope puts the universe on your PC

News Here is Neptune. Microsoft has released a free public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, which is software that lets both amateur and professional stargazers explore the universe from their PCs. The WorldWide Telescope is a rich web application that...

[May 20, 2008, 12:54]

A look at MS's next OS

News By the time the company ships its first NT-kernel-based Windows release, code-named Neptune, it is expected to have phased out DOS support entirely. Earlier in the week, Betanews.com and another online tester site, Activewin.com, were reporting...

[July 26, 1999, 7:46]

DrYoyo - Powerful Diet Assistant

Downloads Just input your weight and you'll find out your weight on other planets: Moon, Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto and Sun. DrYoyo helps you to plan your diet, lose weight and make your health better.

[December 26, 2007, 6:00]

Why Windows is still the big OS wheel

News Earlier this year, Microsoft scrapped plans to develop 'Neptune', a consumer-oriented version of Windows based on the NT kernel, instead focusing on Whistler. But what's powering all the latest and greatest devices?

[June 16, 2000, 13:17]

Intel dives into pervasive computing

News The University of Washington, for instance, is currently planting networked sensors along a Juan de Fuca tectonic plate in the northern Pacific Ocean to study earth movements as part of the Neptune project.

[August 28, 2001, 9:19]

US Report: NT 5.0 readied for early takeoff?

News Microsoft has begun selectively spreading the word to its reseller and developer partners about NT 5.0 service pack 1, code named Asteroid; NT 6.0, code-named Janus; SNA Server 3.0, code-named Babylon; Proxy Server 3.0, code-named Comet; and a...

[September 22, 1998, 7:00]

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