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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PC World names Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger ‘Best Operating System’ – June 01, 2005
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
EarthWeb: Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger is a ‘serious enterprise operating system, a pivotal release’ – May 06, 2005
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
Mac OS X Tiger will likely improve performance of your Macintosh – April 30, 2005
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
Associated Press: Mac OS X Tiger ‘provides another excellent incentive to switch from Windows’ – April 28, 2005
Mossberg: Apple’s Tiger ‘the best, most advanced personal computer operating system on the market’ – April 28, 2005
InformationWeek columnist: Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger ‘a compelling upgrade’ – April 28, 2005
NY Times: Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger is the most secure, stable and satisfying OS on earth – April 28, 2005
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
“Vista” in latvian means “hen, chicken”.
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Did it ever occur to you what a poor video presentation that was? I felt like I was watching a movie trailer from 1972! M$ is LAME – Bill Gates should be embarrassed! He has as much charisma as Steven Wright (you know, the comedian).
Anyway, Vista should be called “Visa”, as in “I need to buy a Mac instead on my Visa.”
Dashboard dictionary ( why can’t you copy from it?)
vista-noun
A pleasing view, esp. one seen through a long narrow opening.
a mental view of a succession of remembered and anticipated events.
ie. anticipated–keep waiting, waiting, waiting, waiti- wait, wa, wa , wa, wa.
A week!! We should be so lucky.
People haven’t even decided on the name of the effing company yet, let alone it’s ‘newest’ (ie 5 years old) product!!!
It’ll never stop, I tells ya 😀
Hasta La Vista, Windows!
i have screenshots of the “new” OS
http://images.google.com/images?q=vista+cruiser&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
The quality of that video is truly horrendous. Microsoft should really consider using Quicktime.
Didn’t Sputnik used to be more clever? He used to be a troll we could rely on to push some real emotional buttons and fan the flames. I think he quit a while back, leaving only poseurs to uphold his hard-won reputation.
Oh and the service pack 2 version can be ‘Vista deluxe’ hmmm the 1950s are fashionable again – or will be by the time it comes out
Why doesn’t M$ just call it what it truly is. Windows XP SP3. Calling it a Vista Cruiser or whatever doesn’t change the fact that it’s simply going to be nothing more than XP SP3 in a fancy new box with a $200+ price tag.
Vista? That’s the best hey could do? Not impressed.
That video introducing the name was so lame and hokey. Besides, the video quality (wmv) was so awful, you can’t read the text. Who the hell were those 2 dorks on stage?
this new sputnik sucks. boo.
Where is nomacforyou when you need em?
I wasn’t able to get the video to play on my Dhell Machine at work – a Windows Media Player error message appears telling me of a “Catastrophic Failure” – no joke.
Couldn’t have said it better myself!
MDN – I like your take. Nice job. The couple in the picture does look like they have been abandoned and are looking in the far, far distance for the next MS OS to arrive.
Peace.
Oh my God…i thought they were going to call it Windows Visa, because you would need to activate it giving a Visa Card in order to get security updates, antivirus stuff, antispyware…….
Well, hasta la vista Longhorn. Wait….”hasta la vista”??. “Hasta nunca”(Until never. Bad translation i know, but you get what i mean) is more appropriate
“… “Windows Vista. It enables a new level of confidence in your PC and in your ability to get the most out of it.”
I have all the confidence in that the code will be hacked within hours of its release. Hackers will indeed be able to get the most out of it.
VISTA:
A pleasing view – esp. from a long narrow opening.
The above is the definition of a VISTA from the Dictionary in Tiger’s Dashboard.
I’ll leave it up to you guys for the jokes!
I do enjoy the picture on the Vista page.. it’s like they’re searching for it… “they said it was coming.. where the heck is it?”
MW: progress
VISTA = Vastly Inferior System To Apple
put that in your pipe and smoke it!!
Can you believe how pathetic this is? They got a standing ovation for RENAMING THEIR VAPORWARE!!!
Sputnik, your first post is hilarious! Nice one.
it will be so great if Leopard comes out before Vi$ta; then Mac OSX will be about 350 times ahead. btw, vi$ta is a very annoying word to say
After much squinting I realized that one line of pixelated mess of text said
“The desire is clarity”
So much for fulfilling ones desire…
it’s as if MS marketing thinks that renaming their OS will make everyone forget that it has been overdue for quite some time and place some mindshare distance between “Longhorn” and “Vista”… but no matter what, both names imply a considerable distance between two points and the image (or idea) that the product is a loooong way off.
mebbe we should call it… “LongView”?
MDN Magic Word: first… as in
“Whaddya know… Tempus didn’t get first post. Musta gotta life.”
se7en,
That’s pretty good. I didn’t pay attention to the address and went to the link.
That’s pretty good.
gotta love how engadget puts it:
Hope you’re as pumped up about the name as these guys, because you’re going to be hearing the name “Windows Vista” A LOT over the next eight years or so.
well done engadget, well done…
MW ‘far’…the end of ’06 is still far off.
So, over the horizon we can already see the Vista-Viruses, Vista-Worms and Vista-Spies preparing to do their work….
Game-over already chaps.
Oh, and Gatesy, remember to close the Windows and turn the lights out. Then stick to philanthropy and think what could have been.