Longhorn to be named Windows Vista?

**Rip The Jacker** · 07-24-2005, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by Fuzzo

Augh, why cant microsoft keep it simple and make it Windows 2006?

Yeah, why Vista? I think Windows 2006 sounds much better.

**Snee** · 07-24-2005, 11:21 AM

There was nothing wrong with Longhorn, but I guess it didn't sound crappy enough.

Seriously, I bet they've got someone over there who thinks he's/she's a marketing genious, 'cos they can come up with those excellent names.

What they don't get is that people are going to buy it whatever it's called, 'cos it's pretty much the only option for a lot of people. It had been cool if they'd called it something good, tho'.

**Virtualbody1234** · 07-24-2005, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by SnnY

... It had been cool if they'd called it something good, tho'.

Like Linux?

**BawA** · 07-24-2005, 01:56 PM

guys why u botther this much about the title, ur not going to buy the copy anyway

(download rules). ull get to used it just like XP, nobody thought it would be good name altho every body talks about it these days, beside names should unique, 2006 will be used in many application like NAV2006... it wont look like diffrent then.
personaly i dont think its bad name and dont even care as far as MS provides a good OS.

**peat moss** · 07-24-2005, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by bawa@Klite_user

guys why u botther this much about the title, ur not going to buy the copy anyway

(download rules). ull get to used it just like XP, nobody thought it would be good name altho every body talks about it these days.
personaly i dont think its bad name and dont even care as far as MS provides a good OS.

If they called it Windows Garbage, would people still buy it? Yep, they'd buy it,

Vista means view ,I believe in a few different languages .

**Snee** · 07-24-2005, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234

Originally Posted by SnnY

... It had been cool if they'd called it something good, tho'.

Like Linux?

There's another name I'm not that fond of, but in all fairness, that's the work of one bloke, well geek really, and he did it for free, and many distros usually have ok-ish names.

One would have thought that Microsoft's teams of developers and PR-people would have been able to make up something somewhat better than the sometimes-not-even-getting-paid type of person that does the open source thing, anyhow.

Longhorn was a good name, dunno' why they had to change it, anymore than why I get why they went and changed "whistler". If it had been called something that "Vista" was a step up from I'd have gotten it.