

While Microsoft's various Windows teams, both consumer and business, have at times worked separately and together to complete their respective operating systems, it seems that the groups will finally be melded together with Whistler. But don't be confused about this seemingly unrelated set of projects: It seems that Whistler's capabilities have indeed been spun into the next major version of Windows. And this is true Microsoft has been working on a speech to text translator project dubbed Whistler, along with a speech recognition engine called "Whisper," for some time now.

Several readers informed me that a project dubbed "Whistler" already exists within Microsoft.

Well, now that the cat's out of the bag, so to speak, it's time to take a look at where Windows will be headed now that Microsoft has finally shipped Windows 2000. Sources close to Microsoft expressed their amazement that I had even found out about the plans to drop Neptune and Odyssey as the internal communications about replacing these projects with "Whistler" are marked as "Extreme Microsoft Internal," normally reserved for the company's most sensitive information. Odyssey, meanwhile, was the previous codename to what would have been the next Business Windows, that is, the direct successor to Windows 2000. Each of these descriptions is somewhat correct, but it's easiest to think of Neptune as what would have been Consumer Windows. Miller, Computational Methods of Neutron Transport, American Nuclear Society, 1993, ISBN: 2-4.I received a lot of feedback from my mention in 'Short Takes' about the cancellation of Neptune and Odyssey in lieu of a combined project dubbed "Whistler." Neptune, you may recall, has been alternatively described as the version of Consumer Windows to follow Millennium, the OS that would have been Windows NT 6.0, and even as a set of user interface enhancements to Windows based on HTML. Hetrick, Dynamics of Nuclear Reactors, American Nuclear Society, 1993, ISBN: 3-2. Neuhold, Introductory Nuclear Reactor Dynamics, American Nuclear Society, 1985, ISBN: 9-4. Bezella, Introductory Nuclear Reactor Statics, American Nuclear Society, Revised edition (1989), 1989, ISBN: 3-2. Department of Energy, Nuclear Physics and Reactor Theory. DOE Fundamentals Handbook, Volume 1 and 2. January 1993.

Department of Energy, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow. DOE Fundamentals Handbook, Volume 2 of 3. May 2016. Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer. C.Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 7th Edition.
