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• Project Hudson: Made up of Intel, Nokia, Samsung, Toshiba and Matsushita formed to fight piracy.
• Microsoft code-names. Blink.nu: Code names, phm.lu: Windows codenames and Bitsenbytes.com forum all have a good collection of code-names related to Windows OS and other Microsoft products.
• Microsoft Product Code-Names

  Code-name	Final Name	Comments
  Lonestar	Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005	OS for Microsoft Tablet PC
  Whidbey	Visual Studio 2005	Will ship with Longhorn

• Whistler was the code name for Windows XP. XP stands for eXPerience. XP shared the Whistler code-name with Windows 2003 Server.
• Niagara: Code-name for Sun's next generation UltraSPARC microprocessor. Expected in late 2005 or early 2006, it incorporates a concept that Sun calls chip multithreading, designed to vastly speed up Web content delivery by embedding eight UltraSPARC II-like cores on a single die. It will have a high-end successor called "Rock," which combines multithreading with virtual cores that can be dedicated to application-specific functions. The Niagara design was acquired by Sun along with the startup Afara Websystems Inc. in 2002. Links: eWeek Article: Sun Completes 'Niagara' Design.

About the Quizzes

1. History of Computers is all about the humble beginnings of all those PCs and computing machines that we have now.
2. Software Companies and Institutions gives information about the prominent and historic organisations.
3. Software Products and Applications is about software that has made our lives easier and the people who wrote them.
4. Operating Systems tells you about all those OSs which ever existed.
5. Microprocessors are about chips and other processors that form the brain of any computing machine.
6. Peripherals are pieces of hardware like the mouse that we use for input and output. (No questions)
7. Viruses teaches you about those sinister things that crop up once a while to eat your harddisk.
8. Programming Languages tells you what you wanted to know about all those programming languages people ever used.
9. History of the Internet is about the humble beginnings of Net and the World Wide Web.
10. Internet Domains and Websites contains information on pioneering and interesting websites and the people behind them.