OT: Longhorn IDx ?

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What is the premise of this naming convention? I.e., what does "IDx" mean? I assume that it just means that an IDx release is an internal development workstation (IDX) build, but I don't know why there's no build version descriptor ("Build xxxx", "JAN07_CTP", etc) since there could theoretically be many internal development workstation builds.

Jon
 
That is the MSDN Windows Long Horn Server Build 6001 December CTP Download (see Zack Whittaker's http://www.vistabase.co.uk/ Website for more Information) that I was talking about in My Previous Post, Just FYI. It looks like we are not supposed to discuss the MSDN Windows Long Horn Server Download in this Newsgroup (see Mike Brannigan's Response to My Original Post), Just FYI.

What is the premise of this naming convention? I.e., what does "IDx" mean? I assume that it just means that an IDx release is an internal development workstation (IDX) build, but I don't know why there's no build version descriptor ("Build xxxx", "JAN07_CTP", etc) since there could theoretically be many internal development workstation builds.

Jon
 
My guess is that IDX is part of the name that they gave the code branch that
was compiled to make that release, and thus has some signifigance inside
microsoft as to where the code came from and the quality of the build. The
version descriptor is in the build string as well, but would only be
relevent in the context of what branch was compiled (i.e. build 4000 of
branch 1 is probably not equivalent to build 4000 of branch 2).

- JB
 
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