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Longhorn's Offical Name is Windows Vista

Posted by Zonk on from the you-have-chosen-wisely dept.

UnkleAsdf writes "The folks at Redmond have long pointed to the user interface of the next generation Windows release as one of its major selling points. Now, it appears Microsoft has chosen an official name for Longhorn with just that in mind. Enter: Windows Vista. Microsoft is expected to make an official announcement early Friday morning." From the article: "Microsoft has also registered domains to go along with the newly christened Windows, including windowsvista.com. The domains were registered in late March, indicating the company made the decision even before WinHEC gave developers their first taste of Longhorn in over a year."

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  1. Name confusion? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Asta lavista, Alta Vista. You have fewer lawyers.

    1. Re:Name confusion? by Soul-Burn666 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      How about Vista Windows or another?

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  2. Registration by leonmergen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The domains were registered in late March, indicating the company made the decision even before WinHEC gave developers their first taste of Longhorn in over a year.

    And why is that, exactly? Couldn't it be that they made up many names, selected, say, 10, and registered the domain names to prevent leaking of the name and it being registered by someone else ?

    Sounds like a very small price for such a big risk, so I don't see any reason why registration in March should indicate that they actually decided to go with that name at that date...

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  3. Sucks to be this company... by logik3x · · Score: 4, Insightful

    http://www.vistawindows.com.au/

  4. Re:One of? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Windows Eyecandy and DRM", more like - that appears to be the only thing it offers over XP.

  5. Re:Where's the real news? by Tim+C · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I steadfastly REFUSE to call it vista

    Why? Sure, it's not the world's greatest name, but it's no worse (to me) than say Mandriva (why, Mandrake, why?)

    if I'm going to pay $30 for a digital movie, I would much rather have it on a DVD where I can play it wherever I want than a digital media file with so much DRM that I have to give my first born to get it to play on ONE computer, much less my 4 computers

    I adore the irony of a person decrying an OS for supposed integration of DRM favouring DVDs with their CSS encryption, region-locking and associated law suits...

    And I can just forget linux, because obviously those FSF people are too inconsiderate to give us "features" like trusted computing.

    Maybe the FSF won't, but IBM are working on it.

    Hey, here's an idea - how about you wait until the OS has been released and reviewed (or at least previewed from a release candidate build) before ripping it to shreds for imagined undesirable features?

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