Longhorn to be named Windows Vista?

[Fuzzo]

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

[99%]

vista means "view" in espanol
windows vista
get it? get it?
microsoft is so daring

[RPerry]

So when is Microsoft supposed to make it official ?

[truckbuilder]

sounds like my father inlaw's old car...The dodge vista

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Update: Microsoft has just posted their 6AM PST Press Release confirming that Windows: Codename Longhorn will be called Windows Vista. Microsoft has also launched their official "Windows Vista" web page. Announced on the page: "Beta 1, targeted at developers and IT professionals, will be available by August 3rd 2005".

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx

[uNz[i]]

Vista in Lithuanian and Latvian = Chicken.

Looks like M$ marketing laid another egg.

[peat moss]

Its a pub in Whistler B.C. ................. JK



See : http://www.google.ca/search?q=Whistl...S:ohmy:fficial



But seriously Bill did name a few beta's for the Whistler resort in BC . Just so you fellas don't think Peats talking out of his hat.

Code names : http://www.answers.com/topic/microsoft-codenames

[Dark Steno]

Why Vista? Since Whistler became Windows XP, Longhorn should be Windows XD

[IKT]

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

because thats boring and unoriginal and would conflict with MS's server products aka W2K and W2K3

[Afronaut]

As seen it on slashdot:
Viruses
Instability
Spyware
Trojans
Adware



Also:

By naming the next version of Windows "Vista," Microsoft may have stepped on the toes of another software company just down the road in Redmond.

That would be Vista, a business software and services company founded in 1999 by John Wall. He was not amused when Microsoft announced its choice yesterday, setting the stage for a massive rollout when its flagship operating system goes on sale in fall 2006...

From here.

teh funneh.