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.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Apple to unleash Leopard on Microsoft’s Windows Longhorn; Mac OS X 10.5 due late 2006 – early 2007 – June 07, 2005
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
“BRINGING CLARITY TO YOUR WORLD”
What an hilarious joke from the MS PR department that is. If there is anything anywhere that stands less for clarity and more for mud than Windows then I have yet to hear about it..
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. And Longhorn by any other word as sour.
Better than Longhorn but still very Boring.
The governor to M$’s LongYawn: Hasta la Vista baby!!!
JJ,
shouldn’t that read:
VISTA = Virus Infected System To Abandon
Leopard will be out by the end of summer I predict. Way before Vista which I think won’t really make it until early 2007 unless they release a beta first.
Sitting in front of his Hasta la Vista Windows Pee Cee: click, click, cut and paste the following:
“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…”
Such sad life!!!!!
It’s taken Microsoft over 4 years to get XP to the point that you don’t want to shoot your computer each and every day and now they want to start over again with Vista. No one I know will want to go through all of this bullshit again. Vista will sell on new computers only. There will be no line ups waiting to buy it when it comes out. 10% adoption in the first year is very optimistic.
Wow all that buffering for that crappy quality video…
MW = “bed” as in Microsoft employees should stay in one.
I wouldn’t laugh. There is an element of truth is Sputnik’s ramblings. One of the ‘features’ of Longhorn is to tie in everything via C# to the hardware DRM and achieve lock-in to a degree currently unknown. Thus all web sites will ultimately only be viewable on a Windows browser.
About 15 years ago I saw MS described as an, ‘utterly ruthless company whose ambitions had no limits’. Gates aim is to destroy everything and everybody else and neither age nor any PR fluff about his charitable endeavours has changed anything.
The Wintel lemmings will swallow anything Gates tells them and the corporate IT people who are afraid of learning anything new will hail it as the best OS ever, not noticing that if ever MS did produce anything half decent they would be out of a job.
Tacitus
There are more PC users in that arena watching them rename Windows than there are Mac users total.
My advice. Keep you mouths shut, since Apple fans make up a tenth of a percent of the entire worlds population. You are all (together) nothing but (one big) turd in our crappers.
Knowone on this planet gives a rats ass about any of your rants. The truth is when Vista is released, It’ll sell more than twice the copies in one month than that of crApple’s complete sales of OSuX has in 5 yrs.
Its pathetic, OSuX is a vestige OS that will soon become nothing more than a poo stain in the underpants of Bill Gates, and every other Windows user out there.
OSuX will be defiled and debauched by Windows next year.
So (mw) while you are all getting your Apple Branded Enema’s, We’ll be using a technologically superior product that makes crApples OSuX look as useful as a helicopter in space.
I must give applause to Steve though, He is the worlds best second act, and truly innovative in the “beguile, betray, bullshit, bunco, con, counterfeit, defraud, delude, double-cross, fake, fake out, feign, fool, humbug, illude, jive, juggle, lie, mislead, pretend, psyche out, put on, sham, shuck, simulate, take in, trick” Area’s.
Moo Fockers, MOO
no no no!
its supposed to be Windows Visa .
This will be the first version of windows that allows the profits from your purchase to be directly deposited into Bill’s Visa Debit account.. duh!
vis·ta ( P ) Pronunciation Key (vst)
n.
A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through an opening, as between rows of buildings or trees.
An avenue or other passage affording such a view.
An awareness of a range of time, events, or subjects; a broad mental view: “the deep and sweeping vistas these pioneering critics opened up” (Arthur C. Danto).
…”as useful as a helicopter in space.” Nice analogy IT guy. I love it when somebodies entire career feels threatened like this.
Jeff, For your little mind, maybe a “screen door on a submarine” is a better analogy.
My career is secure. Windows and Linux have been, presently are, and will continue to be the De’Facto.
(mw) help, as in you all need “help” getting the tube in your asses for your enema’s, Look no further than SJ.
See, I told you all those Longhorn BBQs would pay off!
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Hey, there’s a new troll. I would say welcome, but you’re such a pottymouth. Keep it clean, please. Besides, our other target were getting a bit tattered.
Lame name for a lamer product.
Get A Life. Get A Mac.
MW: “couldnt” as in, MS couldn’t program their way out of a paper bag.
hi, i’m new here i watched the video and i can’t believe that people applaud for this shit.
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Oh i see the main reason to the name change operation:
While a leopard can eat a longhorn alive, it cannot eat a vista…LOL
Wonder what will be Steve’s jokes about the both systems in the next event….
rorschach: Technically speaking, Apple couldnt “program” themselves out of a paper bag either. Usually you just “climb” out of one. So really, that a stupid statement. Now, a comment like “Apple couldnt program there way out of the market share hole they’re in” is a better analogy.
It would take crApple 30 more years at their current (mw) sales rate to get to 2% market share.
Don’t get all angry buddy. Why are you even on this site anyway? I’m sure you’re just in denial…that’s why you must be acting like this. Don’t worry, you’ll come around.
“It would take crApple 30 more years at their current (mw) sales rate to get to 2% market share.”
(yawn…) i think everyones waiting for better thought out, credible flame bait before they bite.
would also like to add….
less juvenile flame bait…