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Kevin Okemwa

Microsoft's veteran engineer says Windows 8 was all built around "modern" codenames — including the polarizing Start menu

Samsung ATIV Tab 3 with Windows 8.

Did you know that it's been a little over 15 years since Microsoft first announced Windows 8? To be precise, June 1, 2011. Years later, the company pulled support for the operating system on January 12, 2016.

But more interestingly, Microsoft veteran software engineer Raymond Chen recently shared a story in his ongoing The Old New Thing series about the code name the company used for Windows 8 during its development.

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