- Windows Nashville
Nashville was the
codename for a cancelledoperating system upgrade forMicrosoft Windows 95 , which was originally intended to be released in1996 as Windows 96. For Windows 95 users, Nashville was intended to be a fairly minor update that would bridge the gap between Windows 95 and the next major version of Windows — "Memphis" (popularly referred to as "Windows 97" and eventually released asWindows 98 ). ForWindows NT users, Nashville would be an interim revision between the releases ofWindows NT 4.0 and Cairo, which was due at the same time as Memphis (after a series of delays, the next major version of Windows NT was finally delivered asWindows 2000 ). Due to its position between Windows 95 and Windows 97 (as Memphis was then known), the press often referred to Nashville as "Windows 96".Microsoft claimed that Nashville would add
Internet integration features to the Windows 95 and NT 4.0 desktop, building on the new features in theInternet Explorer 3.0web browser (due for release a few months before Nashville). Touted features included a combinedfile manager and web browser, the ability to seamlessly openMicrosoft Office documents from within Internet Explorer usingActiveX technology and a way to place dynamicwebpages directly on the desktop in place of the regular staticcomputer wallpaper .While the Nashville project itself was cancelled, many of its planned features were introduced with later versions of Internet Explorer and Windows. In particular, much of the Internet integration functionality, including the combined file manager and web browser, could be added to Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 by installing
Windows Desktop Update . This update was included with Internet Explorer 4.0 (also codenamed Nashville and released in1997 ) which could be installed separately or came with Windows 95 OSR 2.5 or Windows 98.ee also
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*Microsoft codenames External links
* [http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/2553/2553.html The Road to Cairo Goes Through Nashville] (June 1996 preview)
* [http://www.guidebookgallery.org/articles/beyondwindows95 Beyond Windows 95]
* [http://history.winusers.de/Betas/nashville.html Another Site about Nashville]
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