As I announced final week, I;m holding a brief but sweet Microsoft codename contest this week, together with the prize being a cost-free signed duplicate of my Microsoft 2.0 book (which I'll ship anywhere in the planet to the winner).Since I announced the rules and laws, I;ve gotten additional than a few fascinating submissions. I was looking for from readers new (but actual and current) Microsoft codenames which I;ve had but to detail as part of my expanding Microsoft Codename list. I is going to be operating a few of the most effective ones (as judged by yours genuinely) on my blog this week.With out further ado, let;s get to it.Codename of the day: SputnikBest guess on what it is: A log-processing system powering Microsoft;s adCenter online-ad platformMeaning/context with the codename: I;m not certain with the Microsoft “theme” of which Sputnik is a component. It does seem to get connected to “Cosmos” and “Dryad,” Microsoft;s cloud-storage layer and distributed-computing technology, respectively. Sputnik was the name of Russia;s space plan and aircraft utilised in that plan. Russia desired to call its craft/indefinite satellites “Cosmos,
Office 2007 Serial,” according to at least one article I found in my searches.Back story: The Sputnik ETL (extract,
Microsoft Office 2007 Product Key, transform and load) infrastructure already is powering the paid-search and display events on adCenter, one tipster says. Sputnik is built on top of SQL Server Integration Services. However,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, unlike SSIS, Sputnik works across distributed systems for the reason that it makes use of the Cosmos file program and Dryad distributed-execution technologies.Additional info: Microsoft is working on making all with the infrastructure powering its cloud-computing services able to work across loosely coupled,
Office 2007 Download, distributed, multicore systems. Sputnik is no exception.Got a Microsoft code name you’ve been wondering about? Send it my way before the end of this week and you just may possibly win my end-of-summer codename contest. (Winners names is going to be kept confidential unless they want them publicized. So don;t be shy: Microsoft employees, customers, partners, competitors and others are all eligible!)Meanwhile, if you want to keep track of the full month’s worth of Microsoft code names I end up posting,
Microsoft Office 2010, bookmark this “Microsoft Codenames” page.