Microsoft always has this tradition of code-naming their products in a unique way. “Hawaii“ is the code name of the Visual Studio IDE to be launched after Oracus. It definitely grabs the attention of developers. Sometimes it does scare developers when they begin to think - “Ok, so what about Whidbey? Is is already out-dated? Do I need to re-learn Hawaii“, “What about Oracus? Whats the difference in it?“. Hawaii is supposed to be a completely re-designed toolset.
So far I havent come across any resource on the Microsoft website which shows a complete product release and platform support diagram which talks about the upcoming releases. A consolidated view of the release strategy of Microsoft would be interesting to see.
[eWeek]
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