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I was an SDET on the Windows team in the 2000/XP era and heard that the internal code name for the x64 port was “Sundown” because Microsoft was hoping it would
by cpeterso 3y ago
I was an SDET on the Windows team in the 2000/XP era and heard that the internal code name for the x64 port was “Sundown” because Microsoft was hoping it would take down Sun in the server market. Unfortunately for Microsoft, that prize went to Linux on x86-64.
- astrange 3y agoMicrosoft also wanted to "destroy Sony" in gaming and so codenamed Xbox and DirectX after a WW2 battle that Japan lost and the US atomic bomb project. Presumably the resulting bad karma is why the Xbox never sold well in Japan.