Today Microsoft Corp. announced that the official name of its next version of the Windows operating system, formerly code-named “Longhorn,” will be “Windows Vista.” The Windows Vista Beta 1, targeted at developers and IT professionals, will be available by August 3rd 2005.
Microsoft have slapped up a website for “Windows Vista” that claims it’ll be “arriving in 2006” along with promises such as, “Windows Vista. It enables a new level of confidence in your PC and in your ability to get the most out of it. It introduces clear ways to organize and use information the way you want to use it. It seamlessly connects you to information, people, and devices that help you get the most out of life.”
In other words, it’ll still be trying to do everything a Mac has already done for years. Moo (sorry, too ingrained).
Merriam-Webster Online defines “vista” in part as, “a distant view” and “an extensive mental view (as over a stretch of time or a series of events).” Constantly slipping delays and extensive stripping of features?
Why wait for so little?
Instead of waiting for Windows Fresca, uh, Vista, find out more about Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger, the world’s most advanced operating system, here.
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Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger ‘is the most advanced operating system on the planet’ – May 31, 2005
TrustedReviews: After using Mac OS X Tiger ‘going back to Windows XP is something of a joke at best’ – May 18, 2005
The Butler Group: ‘Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger the best desktop operating system in the world to date’ – May 13, 2005
BBC News: Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger ‘the most stable and reliable OS, well ahead of Windows XP’ – May 10, 2005
Windows users show strong curiosity about Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger – May 09, 2005
Windows tech writer Thurrott: ‘In many ways, Mac OS X Tiger is simply better than Windows’ – May 07, 2005
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BusinessWeek: ‘Tiger bolsters Mac OS X’s edge as the best personal-computer operating system’ – May 06, 2005
The Guardian: Mac OS X Tiger a powerful solution while Microsoft’s Longhorn remains on drawing board – May 06, 2005
Chicago Sun-Times: Mac OS X Tiger shows ‘there’s never been a more compelling time to switch to Mac’ – May 05, 2005
Dan Gillmor: ‘With Mac OS X Tiger, Apple is plainly in the lead today’ – May 05, 2005
Jupiter Research VP: Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger ‘runs rings around Microsoft Windows’ – May 04, 2005
The Independent: Apple’s ‘faster, smarter, simpler’ Mac OS X Tiger ‘a must-have’ – May 04, 2005
Mac OS X Tiger review for a Windows PC audience finds Tiger’s ‘far, far better than Windows XP’ – May 03, 2005
Boston Herald: Mac OS X Tiger should compel Windows PC users to think about switching to Apple Mac – May 02, 2005
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PC World review gives Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger 4.5 stars out of 5 – April 30, 2005
Ars Technica: Mac OS X Tiger ‘at least twice as significant as any single past update’ – April 28, 2005
BusinessWeek: ‘Tiger bolsters Mac OS X’s edge as the best personal-computer operating system around’ – April 28, 2005
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Wired News: Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger ‘full of welcome surprises’ – April 27, 2005
Apple posts QuickTime movies of Mac OS X Tiger features in action – April 13, 2005
Man, who runs the marketing department in Redmond? Vista?
They need some better naps, ASAP.
Haw Haw,
See that “vista”, far, far on the horizon.
No me neither
suggests everyone will be able to see your pc
Oh sorry thats XP today
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Vista is going to get pwned by Leopard.
The first salvo in the final war to end the computing wars has begun and Microsoft has fired off a round that will soon critically injure Apple.
As the real IT world and web commerce world has known for quite some time, Vista will be the bold OS that finally ushers computing into a new era of security both in private computing and public computing. With each release, the Windows OS shows off its robust and powerful engine and now Vista will finally add the layer of security that will spell the death knell for the obscure and irrelevant Macintosh.
Count the last days of your OS platform. The fully mature Windows OS Vista will be the Moses of computing experiences as Gates leads us to the promised land of full functionality in the 21st century.
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What a bunch of lazy bums… copying Apple all the time and can’t even spend the time to come up with a name that makes sense since Windows 95!!
I can believe this:
“VIDEO: Watch the name announcement for Windows Vista”
They actually have a major event just to name the product.
I prefer actual product to hype and the looooooooong view!
MDN-MW: ‘rate’ as in since when does naming a project rate a press conferrence?
Maybe they’re going to start a new naming convention.
Words that have to do with windows and views.
My suggestion would be “Windows: Pane”
Windows Vapor
Winblows Shitsa – I can’t wait for the virus-writing noobs of the world to start hackin’.
Burn baby burn
Marketing realized that “Longhorn” vs. predator cats was a bad combo. And with as much bad press that existings on Longhorn, they don’t want people corrolating Vista with Longhorn. Smart by MS to change the name, even if it is a defensive move.
My MDN word is Personal
It should be renamed Windows Cliff, because after experiencing the frustration of using it, you’ll want to follow the other windoze sheep right off of a steep one.
So MS decided to give it a name. Sigh. The only impact this breaking news will have is on this here site, where the immature and fantasyless plays on the word Vista will go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on until way past the point where even a 10-year old can’t giggle about the failed attempts at adolescent humor anymore.
Many of us in the “real IT world” have known that the Longhorn project was only a ruse. Vista is going to be the most sophisticated and technologically advanced OS ever.
The new features embedded in the OS will transform the way we interact with our PC’s. The problems and issues that plague modern operating systems like Apple’s OS X will be gone forever. No more viruses, ad-ware or browsers with security issues even junk mail will be a thing of the past. Soon you will have an OS that integrates all aspects of your digital-life into one amazing operating system…
the soon to be released Vista is the future of computing…
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it’s been going on a mere 45 minutes. That’s well within adolesent-homor-inspired-derogaotry-moniker-establishing-vetting-process limits. If we go a week without agreeing on a defacto standard I’d agree with you. But give the process time to work itself out naturally.
I like this from the dictionary: vista |ˈvistə| noun a pleasing view, esp. one seen through a long, narrow opening. – So the winblows out your a$$
that 70’s show… that 70’s show… that 70’s show…
Vista?
A more accurate name would have been ‘blister’
‘blis-ter’ (noun)
1 : an elevation of the epidermis containing watery liquid
2 : an enclosed raised spot (as in paint) resembling a blister
3 : an agent that causes blistering
4 : a disease of plants marked by large swollen patches on the leaves
5 : any of various structures that bulge out (as a gunner’s compartment on a bomber)
– blis·tery /-t(&-)rE/ adjective
I’d prefer to call it ‘a puss-filled irritation to the skin’ myself…
Next thing they will be doing is a major press conference every time Billy gates has a crap…
The name only implies that a worm writer in the far reaches of the world can see the unprotected OS in the Vista. Good luck MS zombies
OMG I think that is the online chat vernacular for Oh My God!
Watch the video – does it look like crap on a pc too?
I know Apple is the master of techno-marketing, but why were all of the people cheering for this announcement; maybe it was taken out of context and I missed something, oh well…
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“Vista will be the bold OS that finally ushers computing…”
“Finally”? I thought Windows was the pinnacle of computing all along? And people talk about the Jobs reality distortion field.
sputnik. you are trying to hard. i miss ye of yesteryear.
Or the pig-Latin derivitive, Shista.
no need to come up with new jokes gang…Today Micro$oft proved once and for all. THEY Are the joke.