News about Longhorn

Posted By: jonathanh | Jul 21st, 2005 @ 6:09 PM
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#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 6:09 PM
jonathanh
jonathanh
My mod color is red

Hot off the PR-approved presses:

Tomorrow [Friday], at 6 am PDT, the following Web link will go live with new information. I can’t tell you what we will actually be sharing, but you will learn something new about "Longhorn" Smiley
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jul05/07-22LHMA.mspx

Gentlemen, start your slashdotting engines!

(And yes, this is the first time I've seen an internal press-release announcement with a smiley)

#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 6:19 PM
BenZila
BenZila
Something new!!!!!!!!

Big Smile

Ok I suppose I can play the guessing game Wink

Longhorn will be free.
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 6:27 PM
prog_dotnet
prog_dotnet
Many thanks for the heads up! Will write an article about it...
 

#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 6:28 PM
jamie
jamie
ill play along too:  because it said something new about "longhorn" <- note the quotes

i bet its the new name - as we know they said internally its been out for sometime

so i guess we find out  FX / 3D  / 2006 whatever it will be
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 6:33 PM
daSmirnov
daSmirnov
Something new about Longhorn.... it's ... been ... canned. 

LOL sorry couldn't resist, it just popped in there. Smiley

Set my homepage to that URL, so I'll find out when I login tomorrow. Smiley
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 6:38 PM
BenZila
BenZila
It's gonna be called windows vista Wink

Or windows DRM :O
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 6:51 PM
prog_dotnet
prog_dotnet
MS Windows Vista was the codename for the Visual Statistics System.
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 6:53 PM
jamie
jamie

Vista

  1. A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through an opening, as between rows of buildings or trees.
  2. An avenue or other passage affording such a view.
  3. An awareness of a range of time, events, or subjects; a broad mental view: “the deep and sweeping vistas these pioneering critics opened up” (Arthur C. Danto).

i dont not like it ..takes a bit of getting used to Wink

#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 6:55 PM
mVPstar
mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.

Windows Vista is going to be a bit hard to get used to. Such an odd name. Smiley


mVPstar

#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 6:57 PM
jamie
jamie
its prounonced vista right - or veesta?
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 7:01 PM
mVPstar
mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.
I'm pronouncing it "veesta".  That sounds odd, though, pronouncing it as Windows "vista" is a mouthful.


mVPstar
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 7:07 PM
jamie
jamie
haha i liked vis-ta better - like a car

veesta?  hey meesta - wanna try my veesta?
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 7:11 PM
mVPstar
mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.
Oh well, must go to sleep very soon so I can hear the "news" on Longhorn at 6am.


Sooo...hasta la...vista Smiley

mVPstar
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 7:12 PM
jamie
jamie
haha - ok well thats a good connotation cool!
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 7:13 PM
mVPstar
mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.
jamie wrote:
haha - ok well thats a good connotation cool!


stole it from scoble's comments Tongue Out
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 7:24 PM
jamie
jamie
i still keep picturing the Frito Bandito

hahaha

ie yi yi yi...
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 7:28 PM
mVPstar
mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.
hasta la vista = until Vista


very appropriate given the delay Smiley
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 7:33 PM
lars
lars
jonathanh wrote:
Tomorrow [Friday], at 6 am PDT, the following Web link will go live with new information. I can’t tell you what we will actually be sharing, but you will learn something new about "Longhorn" http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jul05/07-22LHMA.mspx


LHMA might be a clue. LH=Longhorn of course, the A may be announcement. That leaves the M, which if it was "Microsoft" probably would have been placed before LH.

My guess is that it's about beta bits. Perhaps Steve is quoted screaming "BETA, BETA, BETA!!! BETA FOR EVERYONE!!". Smiley


#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 7:34 PM
Programous
Programous

vista  

vis·ta [vístə]
(plural vis·tas)
noun
1.  scenic view: a scenic or panoramic view 
2.  view seen through narrow opening: a view seen through a long narrow opening, e.g. between rows of trees or buildings 
3.  mental picture: a mental picture covering a wide range of objects or a long succession of events in the past or future
open up vistas of expansion into hitherto untapped markets

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#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 7:47 PM
PaoloM
PaoloM
Hypermediocrity
Vista, in Italian, means "Vision"
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 7:52 PM
jamie
jamie
THIS JUST IN! Wink

my wife says its not veesta - its vista - as in newfoundland bona-vista
(this land is your land - this land is our land...)

so im still confused

i really like the meaning

but id love the name if it is windows VIS-ta
Windows VEESTA im iffy on

is everyone sure its veesta?

( is it a canadian pronounciation thing?)
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 8:10 PM
lars
lars
Thanks for the heads up Jonathan!
#Jul 21st, 2005 @ 8:42 PM
Michael Griffiths
Michael Griffiths
Fatalism.
I like the name Windows Vista Smiley

First of all, it's an immeasurable step up from "Windows 2006" or "Windows XP". My god.

Second - think about how well it fits the Windows theme.

What do you see outside your window - a vista. Smiley

And it has positive connotations.
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