Anti-Vista Petition | The Coffeehouse

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Since "Vista" has been derrided by a lot of members, myself included, I've started this petition/list thingie.

Gentlemen, start your keyboards!

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

W3bbo wrote:
Since "Vista" has been derrided by a lot of members, myself included, I've started this.

Gentlemen, start your keyboards!

Oh for crying out loud.

Right I've started this

yyy
Developer

Good idea - I've already added my suggestion Smiley

cravikiran
Ravi Chodavarapu

If you don't like it you can always do a silent protest and if its the general feeling, maybe it'll catch on as an unofficial boycott. But, give it a chance. See what they do with it.

j0217995

This is silly we going to have a pettition for every thing that W3bbo or whatever doesn't like? I know next time MS comes up w/ a product Steve or Bill needs to ask him how what he thinks

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

j0217995 wrote:
This is silly we going to have a pettition for every thing that W3bbo or whatever doesn't like? I know next time MS comes up w/ a product Steve or Bill needs to ask him how what he thinks

Sign up here then Smiley

yyy
Developer

What's wrong in suggesting better names? After all, we are the customers...

AndyC

yyy wrote:

What's wrong in suggesting better names? After all, we are the customers...

Because that's what marketing drones are for...

Tensor
Im in yr house upgrading yr family

yeah lets run everything as a committee - that way we can please everyone all the time.

Good grief.

Cider
Daze-d & Confused

How about Windows Life?

Then when we have the likes of w3bbo complaining about pointless stuff like the name of the OS or CSS 3.0.23233.2121, we can tell him its better in the latest version of Windows and so he should Get A Life.

brussell

They already have released the name and have a site for it. Do you really think they'll change the name because a few people don't like it?

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

brussell wrote:
They already have released the name and have a site for it. Do you really think they'll change the name because a few people don't like it?

Honda did.

Arran

I really don’t think there will be that many people that don’t like it.

What reason do you have to dislike it? Its easy to just decide you don’t like something. Its not as easy to say why and give a solid argument.

Its a name of a product and it has meaning (even if that’s in a marketing sense), it does not have a impact on the really important stuff about it.

Also quite like the video on
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx

Nata1
.Search - Google Appliance killer

What's Vista? Is that the new Longhorn name or something?

That's not a good name

Nata1
.Search - Google Appliance killer

I don't know, actually its kind of catchy. It works

The font they use makes it work

because of marketing, and how big Microsoft is, people will accept that everywhere and won't even think of the name.

Hey, I even like it now!! Thats marketing.

BenZila

Nata1 wrote:
I don't know, actually its kind of catchy. It works

The font they use makes it work

because of marketing, and how big Microsoft is, people will accept that everywhere and won't even think of the name.

Hey, I even like it now!! Thats marketing.

Hehe, changed opinion in 2 posts Big Smile

The power of microsofts marketing team Wink

Arran

The thing is MS go through this every time. People crying out "What's wrong with using <insert code name here> as its name".
If they used that it would not be its code name its the name. I doubt code names are thought about that much and i very much doubt marketing monkeys are involved.

Just accept it and move on. Put your effort into reporting more beta bugs or offer real product feedback.

There is nothing wrong with saying what you think, but stop taking things too far. Its just plain boring!

lars

W3bbo wrote:
brussell wrote:They already have released the name and have a site for it. Do you really think they'll change the name because a few people don't like it?
Honda did.

I think the Honda case was a little bit worse...

"Car maker Honda introduced their new car "Fitta" in the Nordic countries during 2001, only to find out that "fitta" is an old word, currently used in vulgar language to refer to a woman's genitals in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. It was renamed to "Honda Jazz" for the Nordic market. According to newspaper articles, Japanese ads said that "[Fitta] is small on the outside, but large on the inside". It's now called the Honda Fit in Japanese markets."

Source: Marketing Translation Mistakes

It's one of the most vulgar and offensive words in the swedish language. To make it even worse, that word is also slang for "coward". With that name they wouldn't have sold a single car.

Tensor
Im in yr house upgrading yr family

Meanwhile, back at Redmond:

Marketing guy 1: "OK, so thats the multimillion dollar launch budget spent, the packaging has been sent to the printers - is there anything we missed?"

Marketing guy 2: "Woah woah WOAH! A couple of guys on Channel 9 dont like the name Vista!"

Marketing guy 1 - reaching for phone: "HOLD THE PRESSES!"

Cider
Daze-d & Confused

lars wrote:

W3bbo wrote:

brussell wrote: They already have released the name and have a site for it. Do you really think they'll change the name because a few people don't like it?
Honda did.

I think the Honda case was a little bit worse...

"Car maker Honda introduced their new car "Fitta" in the Nordic countries during 2001, only to find out that "fitta" is an old word, currently used in vulgar language to refer to a woman's genitals in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. It was renamed to "Honda Jazz" for the Nordic market. According to newspaper articles, Japanese ads said that "[Fitta] is small on the outside, but large on the inside". It's now called the Honda Fit in Japanese markets."

Source: Marketing Translation Mistakes

It's one of the most vulgar and offensive words in the swedish language. To make it even worse, that word is also slang for "coward". With that name they wouldn't have sold a single car.

Mind you, Honda did release the MR2 in France, even though it rolls off the French tongue as "merde"

Arran

Toyota. But yeah.
Dont think they thought about that one until after the launch.
Good car though Smiley

Nata1
.Search - Google Appliance killer

Hey Benzilla - that was hillarious

First reaction - I didn't like that name, it sounded stupid

after I looked at the name on the Microsoft website, "Windows Vista", it seemed like the perfect name.

Is that what the server OS is going to be called too?

I love it - there's three words they are using to describe it

clear - confident - connected

did you guys see how many people were at that announcement? There were 10 thousand people there!! where the heck was that?

lars

Nata1 wrote:
Is that what the server OS is going to be called too?

Windows MasterCard Wink

ScanIAm
On a scale of 1 to 10, people are stupid.

AndyC wrote:

yyy wrote:
What's wrong in suggesting better names? After all, we are the customers...

Because that's what marketing drones are for...

Hey, everybody, let's synergize!!!!

dentaku

Nata1 wrote:

did you guys see how many people were at that announcement? There were 10 thousand people there!! where the heck was that?

I know, where was that? Even more important, where was Scoble?

Did anyone else notice in the video that there was a few frames of what looked like a version of the new photo viewer/organizer that was on a C9 video a while ago?