Odyssey was a codename for a version of Microsoft Windows that was in development from early 1999 to early 2000. The goal of Odyssey was to develop a successor to the NT-based Windows 2000 that was developed for business users. The same codebase, NT 6.0,[1] was going to be used in creating Windows Neptune, the "home" counterpart to Odyssey. (The version number "NT 6.0", but not the name, was later recycled for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system.) There were some publicly leaked builds of Neptune. However, after the release of Windows 2000, the Neptune and Odyssey teams were combined with the Windows 2000 team to work on the Whistler project that was released in late 2001 as Windows XP.
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^ Thurrott, Paul. "Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Windows 2000 FAQ". Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows. WindowsITPro. Retrieved on 2008-03-13. ""Odyssey" is the code-name for the next major version of Windows 2000, which would have been called Windows NT 6.0 had Microsoft not messed with the naming in late 1998."
