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'''''Neptune''''' (sometimes stylized as '''''NepTune''''') was the codename for a canceled version of [[Microsoft Windows]] scheduled for release during the year 2000, which would have been the first consumer version of Windows based on the existing [[Windows NT]] codebase. The operating system was originally intended to succeed [[Windows 98]], although this later shifted to [[Windows Me]] due to delays. | '''''Neptune''''' (sometimes stylized as '''''NepTune''''') was the codename for a canceled version of [[Microsoft Windows]] scheduled for release during the year 2000, which would have been the first consumer version of Windows based on the existing [[Windows NT]] codebase. The operating system was originally intended to succeed [[Windows 98]], although this later shifted to [[Windows Me]] due to delays. | ||
Major user experience enhancements were planned to ship with Neptune, including Activity Centers, a new task-based user interface that involved | == Main changes == | ||
Major user experience enhancements were planned to ship with Neptune, including Activity Centers, a new task-based user interface that involved "pages" focusing on daily tasks with facilities that include (but are not limited to) browsing the Internet, communication, document management and entertainment. User management was also improved in Neptune with the introduction of several new user types as well as a dedicated full-screen user interface. | |||
The project was worked on throughout 1999 before | The new interfaces were primarily implemented using web technology, often using the new [[Mars|Mars framework]]. Another key point of the Neptune project was to experiment with new experiences that did not require the user to manually save their work; some of this effort is visible in the only available build, which enables hibernation by default and requires the user to take extra steps to fully shut down the computer. The Profile-Assisted Boot Accelerator, a feature that captures the system state immediately after a normal boot and then restores it on further boots, was also introduced. | ||
== Fate == | |||
The project was worked on throughout 1999 before being ultimately scrapped in January 2000, as the Neptune team merged with another team focused on the [[Windows Odyssey|''Odyssey'' project]], a business-oriented successor of [[Windows 2000]]. The merging of both teams resulted in the formation of a new project codenamed ''Whistler'', which ultimately evolved into [[Windows XP]]. Many of the project objectives later inspired and/or laid the groundwork for a number of new features in the versions that followed, with Windows XP introducing an evolved form of Neptune's new [[Start menu]] design as well parts of the task-based user interface. | |||
The touch-focused Metro design language introduced as part of [[Windows 8]] also shared many common goals with the Neptune project, including the Activity Centers' focus on typography as well as dedicated full-screen applications for common tasks. Windows 8 also introduced hybrid boot, a functionality that takes advantage of hibernation to capture the initial states of necessary system applications and boot drivers, largely similar in principle to the Boot Accelerator feature that would have been included as part of Neptune. | |||
== Concept art == | == Concept art == | ||