Editing Windows Neptune (section)

== Triton ==
[[File:Service Pack Calendar of Microsoft Windows Versions.png|thumb|Internal [[Microsoft]] calendar of service pack release dates for Neptune, NT 5.0, and Triton]]
Neptune was intended to have a successor named '''Triton''', which was to be a minor update with very few user interface changes; service packs were additionally planned for it.<ref name=Thurrott>{{cite web | last=Thurrott | first=Paul | date=August 22, 2019 | url=https://www.thurrott.com/dev/212797/programming-windows-more-roads-not-taken | title=Programming Windows: More Roads Not Taken | publisher=Thurrott | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022095401/https://www.thurrott.com/dev/212797/programming-windows-more-roads-not-taken | archivedate=October 22, 2020}} {{subscription required}}</ref><ref name="CONFIDENTIAL">{{cite web | url=https://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/7000/PX07297.pdf | title=Platforms Group-Desktop Three-Year Outlook February 1998 |access-date=17 April 2023}}</ref> Triton was slated for a spring 2002 release (coinciding with Microsoft's final [[fiscal quarter]] of 2001). Triton was devised back in 1998 alongside Neptune; the only details of it within Microsoft's internal planning documentation that year relate to a deadline for added hardware support by December 2001.<ref name=Thurrott />

According to Paul Thurrott, the timeline of releases was to be Windows NT 5.0 (the former name for Windows 2000) for high-end workstations and [[Windows 98]] for entry-level and mid-range PCs from 1998 to 1999, followed by Neptune in 2000 and 2001 for both workstations and consumer PCs, followed by Triton for the same target audience.<ref name=Thurrott /> However, according to [[Charlie Kindel]], Triton was to be a version of Neptune centered on [[home server]] usage.<ref>{{cite web | last=Kindel | first=Charlie | author-link=Charlie Kindel | date=August 8, 2011 | url=https://ceklog.kindel.com/2011/08/08/after-21-years-goodbye-microsoft/ | title=After 21 Years: Goodbye Microsoft | work=Kindel.com | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809174852/https://ceklog.kindel.com/2011/08/08/after-21-years-goodbye-microsoft/ | archivedate=August 9, 2011}}</ref>

The project's codename refers to Neptune's largest moon, [[Triton (moon)|Triton]].