@CHMTech Delivers some #Drastic News & Tips (#Windows10 Support Ends Oct. 14, 2025), but a Random Question comes to Mind ... Do Proceeding #Versions of @Windows have #SecondTitles?

CMM Tech primes us on the end of Windows 10 & the problem(s) that brings up ...

... but I wonder if Windows 10 & -11 (not to mention -8 & -XP & -Vista & ... were there others? yes, yes there were; listed on the Wikipedia page (linked through the bold text below)) have 'second titles' (Britannica calls the secondary, explanatory title a "subtitle," but aren't 'subtitles' the "closed captions" you can use on TV?... the Wikipedia page calls them 'codenames,' and I'll probably list them beneath)

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The word “Drastic” (which I put here because I already did an entry for "Urgent" 🤣) is built on ancient words that mean "(thing) to be Done."

just like #Drastically

The word “Versions” is built on ancient words that mean "to Bend."

just like #Version

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Explaining "codenames," Wikipedia puts it (on 5/31/2023),

Microsoft codenames are given by Microsoft to products it has in development before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves. Many of these products (new versions of Windows in particular) are of major significance to the IT community, and so the terms are often widely used in discussions before the official release. Microsoft usually does not announce a final name until shortly before the product is publicly available. It is not uncommon for Microsoft to reuse codenames a few years after a previous usage has been abandoned.

The PC OS they eventually named ... 
• "Windows 1.01" was early-on known as 
• Interface Manager (because that's what it was)
• "Windows 3.1" was early-on known as 
• Janus (the god of endings-&-beginnings ... updated (for integrated networking) to Winball and Sparta)
• "Windows NT (New Technology) 3.1" was early-on known as 
• Razzle (or maybe NT OS/2)
• "Windows 3.11" was early-on known as 
• Snowball
• "Windows NT 3.5 & -3.51" were early-on known as 
• Daytona (after the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, on account of the developers' focus on improving the OS's speed)
• "Windows 95" was early-on known as 
• Chicago (the city in Illinois where Microsoft developed the OS?)
• "Windows NT 4.0" was early-on known as 
  
• Shell Update Release ('Shell' was their name for the "folders on your disk," I think)
• "Windows 98 (First Edition)" was early-on known as 
• Memphis
• "Windows 2000" was early-on known as 
• Windows NT 5.0 (because one of their team-leaders didn't like codenames; although this version's Service Pack 1 was codenamed "Asteroid" and the 64-bit was codenamed "Janus")
• "Windows Me" was early-on known as 
• Millennium (though they marketed it with the pronoun Me, 'M.E.' was actually an acronym for "Millennium Edition"
• different editions/variations of "Windows XP (standing for 'eX-Perience')" were early-on known as 
• Whistler (two projects--Neptune & Odyssey--combined into one & named after the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort in Whistler, British Columbia), 'Freestyle, Harmony, Symphony, Emerald,' (media-focused editions), Anvil
• "Windows Vista" was early-on known as 
• Longhorn
• "Windows 7" was always known as "Windows 7"
• "Windows 8" was early-on known as "Windows 8"
• "Windows 8.1" was early-on known as 
• Blue (name of a continuous 'wave of developments' Microsoft was planning)
• "Windows 10 version 1507" was early-on known as 
• Threshold
• "Windows 10 version 1511" was early-on known as 
• Threshold 2
• "Windows 10 version 1607" was early-on known as 
• Redstone 1
• "Windows 10 version 1703" was early-on known as 
• Redstone 2
• "Windows 10 version 1709" was early-on known as 
• Redstone 3
• "Windows 10 version 1803" was early-on known as 
• Redstone 4
• "Windows 10 version 1809" was early-on known as 
• Redstone 5
• "Windows 10 version 1903" was early-on known as 
• 19H1
• "Windows 10 version 1909" was early-on known as 
• Vanadium
• "Windows 10 version 2004, -20H2, -21H1, -21H2 & -22H2" were early-on known as 
• Vibranium ('the Vibrania?')
• "Windows 11 version 21H2" was early-on known as 
• Sun Valley
• "Windows 11 version 22H2" was early-on known as 
• Sun Valley 2

The Wikipedia page also lists Windows' Mobile OSs, Servers, HPC Servers, Essential Business Servers, Home Severs, MultiPoint Servers, Small Business Servers, Tablets, Headsets, Hubs, etc.---some of which also had codenames.

But I'm not very concerned about those technologies. I guess I just want to make 'The Change' feel a little more-natural, and I think "understanding why they used those codenames" is the best way I can help.

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