Office Pro A (Microsoft) code name a day G2

Although an increasing number of teams at Microsoft seem to get shying absent from christening their fledgling products with superior, old-fashioned code names – favoring the ever-so-boring “V.Next” designation instead — there are still some who are doing so. Microsoft code names always have piqued my interest. They offer some amazing clues about the Redmondians’ development priorities,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, not to mention a better understanding of which future Microsoft items fit together, from a strategy standpoint. Microsoft
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G2 In honor of Microsoft code-name junkies everywhere,Office Pro, I’m going to feature one, random Microsoft code name per work day for the rest of this month. I’ll provide as much information as I’ve been able to unearth on each, and attempt to provide some context as to how the team chose the name and how the forthcoming technology fits into the Redmond product hierarchy. Microsoft code name of the day: G2 Best guess on what it is: Windows Live Messenger Mobile client for Windows Mobile devices (Yikes. Bring on the naming police,Office 2007 Pro Plus Key!) Meaning/context of the code name: There are lots of different meanings of "G2." My bet for this one? "Intelligence gathered from the field or customers" or "military intelligence." Makes sense, given this is an instant-messaging product (and one of the successors to MSN Messenger). Back story: Microsoft is beta testing (and promising to be beta testing soon) a amount of different Windows Live mobile services. G2 is just one of these. The LiveSide.net guys say the G2 service is in private beta only at this point. There is a public Microsoft site that is a placeholder for the forthcoming beta, however. Additional info: Among the new features in G2, again,Office 2007 Enterprise, according to LiveSide, are "nudges" (your mobile device vibrates), support for voiceclips, file transfer capability and phonebook integration with Windows Live Contacts. Anyone have more G2 on "G2"? Or do you have another Microsoft code name you’ve been wondering about? Send it my way and I’ll do my best to track down some leads on what it might be. And if you want to keep track of the full month's worth of Microsoft code names I end up posting,Office 2007 Activation Key, bookmark this "Microsoft Codenames" page.