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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. one of the things they're waiting for... by dAzED1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    one of the things they're waiting for...is a platform. AMD is solid and at 64 bit, but Intel is MS's ol' buddy. Longhorn was already supposed to be out by now, but...Intel doesn't have a good enough 64bit platform to offer it. That's the wait.

  2. Where's the real news? by Aminion · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So the future Windows will be called Vista. But where is the news that really matters?

    I want to know what happened to WinFS, Avalon, Indigo and all the other revolutionary tech that Long... Vista supposedly would offer. How much has been cut and how much does Vista really differ from XP? How much will Vista cost?

    Somehow, Vista doesn't seem to be, as Bill Gates once said, the the most important release since Windows 95. Let's hope Vista is more than a new color scheme and fancy GUI components.

  3. I know the right name: by MtViewGuy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Windows 64.

    After all, this new version of Windows is likely going to be designed mostly to support the x86-64 CPU instruction set that AMD pioneered and Intel has begun to use, so this sets a break with the 32-bit past of previous Windows versions.

  4. The Reason they Chose this..... by Guy.Gregory · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Has anyone else realised that 'Vista' may not be as dumb as it initially sounds?

    Windows Vista will likely be shortened to:

    Windows VI

    'VI' in Roman Numerals is six.

    Guess what version Windows Vista will be? 6.0...

    Either this is a smart marketing name, or I'm slightly paranoid...

  5. What will Windows Vista do for me? by SamSeaborn · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I use WinXP Home (on a P4 2.8G w 512M ram).

    Things work quite well. All the apps work, I can develop with Eclipse, JBoss, and MySQL.

    User switching is nice, so my wife can have her own email/office environment.

    I rarely have to reboot the machine due to problems.

    I don't see the value proposition in upgrading to Windows Vista? What is it supposed to give me?

    Sam

  6. Re:Chicken by ch-chuck · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just like Commodore and the VIC-20 in Germany - from wikipedia: "The VIC-20 was originally meant to be called Vixen, but this name was inappropriate in Germany, Commodore's second most important market, because it sounds like wichsen, the German language word for "masturbate". VIC, which was subsequently chosen, has a similar problem--it can be pronounced like ficken, the German word for ... "

    You'll just have to lookup vic-20 in wiki for that. Likewise, the Japanese video game Puck-Man was changed for fear of US graffiti.

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