There does appear to be some places these code names have been unofficially listed, i.e. http://gomo.no-ip.com/other/Microsoft%20Codenames.htm
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 03:42:10PM -0500, VB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Thanks for the info. i did open your attachment. > > Now dont hurt yourself falling off your high horse. I did not write Outlook > > Express, perhaps your bitterness would be better off directed to those that > > did. > > from a private email: > [...] > The original MS-MAIL came from a Canadian company > that MS acquired way back. Some of the people in the > Redmond building 16 were veterans from that old company. > The reply semantics in their mail client dated back to > those days, before MS was even on the scene. > [edit note: above bit refers to the top post and other M$ MUA behavior] > > Before that, in 1993 or so, I wrote a paper for a PM > at MS which outlined how to fixup the then 'Capone' > project (which was named 'Outlook' later) such that > it interoperated with SMTP and POP and used sensible > reply semantics. I didn't get that contract because the PM > discovered that an engineer there had independently > written his own Internet mail client, which was called > 'Athena' then, and which eventually became 'Outlook Express'. > [...] > > PM == project manager > > A little (perhaps) unwritten history... > -- > Chief Gadgeteer > Elegant Innovations > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
