"Windows Vista" name for Longhorn?

ACT10Npack

Bob Stein has just posted that the next version Windows, currently codenamed 'Longhorn', will in fact be named Windows Vista.

Looking at whois.net seems to confirm that all 'vista' variations are aready registered.

ACTIVEWIN.COM

bsilby

ACT10Npack wrote:
Bob Stein has just posted that the next version Windows, currently codenamed 'Longhorn', will in fact be named Windows Vista.

Looking at whois.net seems to confirm that all 'vista' variations are aready registered.

ACTIVEWIN.COM

That's a better sounding name than Windows XT or EX or FX or whatever people have been speculating.

Rake
what me.............. worry?

but still sucks. what is vista suppose to mean? Longhorn sounds better than that crap.

Manip

I hate it. Anyway does it remind anyone else of VISA?

I can see it now:

Support Tech: Windows Vista is required to install
Nooby: Dam all I have is a mastercard

mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.

Hehehe. Tongue Out

Yeah, I was thinking VISA too when I heard the new name.

mVPstar

BenZila

Like we all hated XP when it was first announced yad yada.

jonathanh
My mod color is red

So what are we going to use as the acronym? WinXP, Win2k3, WinV?

BenZila

jonathanh wrote:
So what are we going to use as the acronym? WinXP, Win2k3, WinV?

So are you confirming it Wink

Naughty naughty Tongue Out

P.R. are gonna eat you Big Smile

Manip

I always liked XP. Although I was shocked it wasn't called 2001 like we had expected.

Re-Johnathan: WinVS or Windows VS

mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.

Ooh. My first name starts with a 'V'. WinV sounds nice. Smiley

mVPstar

BenZila

Manip wrote:
I always liked XP. Although I was shocked it wasn't called 2001 like we had expected.

Re-Johnathan: WinVS or Windows VS

Could be WinVSLinux Tongue Out

Anyway.

http://bink.nu/Article4551.bink

jamie

Manip wrote:
I hate it. Anyway does it remind anyone else of VISA?

I can see it now:

Support Tech: Windows Vista is required to install
Nooby: Dam all I have is a mastercard

agGREED

jonathanh
My mod color is red

BenZila wrote:
So are you confirming it

Naughty naughty P.R. are gonna eat you

Nah - I don't know anything more than you guys at this point. In fact, I just alerted PR that their little "heads up" was kind of redundant, since it's already leaked. Gotta get them on the Cluetrain...

Looks like it was announced at our internal sales event today down in Atlanta, and was promptly leaked to e.g. Mary Jo Foley

Rake
what me.............. worry?

Has anyone tested it so far what's the hardware requirments like?

prog_dotnet

jonathanh wrote:
So what are we going to use as the acronym? WinXP, Win2k3, WinV?

Windows 2006 Smiley

Name branding is a costly and time-consuming endeavour. Everyone knows what Windows is and historically, the windows platforms has been named after the year it was released. (Except XP and pre 95)

Take a survey on the street and ask what is windows vista ? How many would give the correct answer? Quite few I imagine. And just as a reference, compare the results with the question what is windows 2006.

So why change someting thats working.

jamie

funny news.com and slashdot arnt on it yet either .. laggards!

mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.

jonathanh wrote:
Nah - I don't know anything more than you guys at this point. In fact, I just alerted PR that their little "heads up" was kind of redundant, since it's already leaked. Gotta get them on the Cluetrain...

Looks like it was announced at our internal sales event today down in Atlanta, and was promptly leaked to e.g. Mary Jo Foley

Soo, does that mean I don't have to sleep early to get up early at 6AM to listen to the Long-er..Vista news? Wink

mVPstar

Programous

ACT10Npack wrote:
Bob Stein has just posted that the next version Windows, currently codenamed 'Longhorn', will in fact be named Windows Vista.

Looking at whois.net seems to confirm that all 'vista' variations are aready registered.

ACTIVEWIN.COM

I was kind of hoping they would call it Longhorn. Just think of the marketing potential:

Microsoft Longhorn: A Longer, Harder, Faster, Better computing experience.
*The rest of related jokes where removed for decency*

jonathanh
My mod color is red

jonathanh wrote:
In fact, I just alerted PR that their little "heads up" was kind of redundant, since it's already leaked. Gotta get them on the Cluetrain...

Ok, kudos to our PR team - I got a response from them within 6 minutes!

The response included official guidelines for us to respond to any questions about this over the next 10 hours. Of course, the guidelines started by saying that they understood it was "kind of a lost cause". Heheheheh

Michael Griffiths
Fatalism.

I'll repeat it here...

I like the name Windows Vista.

It's not an unusual word - at least to me, heh. It's ordinary, mundane, and hardly obtuse.

And it fits perfectly with the "Windows" idea.

Kudos to whoever came up with the name. Ideally, this will end the awful track record Microsoft has of naming things...

Oh, and there's a large advantage over using the year. Years are dated very quickly. "Windows 2006" would sound old in 2009, while "Windows Vista" wouldn't.