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
Sputnik’s overblown rhetoric does suggest a modicum of intelligence, albeit misdirected. Perhaps he is merely playing Devil’s Advocate to incite vitriolic reactions? It is unfathomable that he could possibly present this puerile excrement as superior to OSX.
Of course DitchWitch’s career is secure. Mechanics only make money off vehicles that are broken…
PS, what does “Knowone” mean? The one who knows?
In other news, Bill Gates has applied to have a few extra months added to 2006….
i think i’m starting to see Sputnik’s point… and perhaps come around to his way of thinking….
“That’s right Brother Sputnik! Spread the Truth! Preach! Preach!”
Yeah, Im in denial..LOL…Good One..
I really cant imagine where MS got such a name (it sounds so familiar), hhhhmmmm…
http://www.vistawindows.com.au/
just shows, copying others isnt just a programmer’s job, but MS company policy!
Wow, Vista. Cool name – NOT!
Micro$oft suck, and DitchWitch, you deserve to have Windows because your mouth is dirty.
Peace, brothers. Long Live Apple®.
mw: floor – OS X will wipe the floor with Vista, especially now we’re moving to Intel. No more hiding, the truth will out!
“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.”
Sputnik only has a modicum of intelligence (or maybe he was being funny and no one caught it)…
SPUTNIK: “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.”
Moses DID NOT led the Israelites into the Promised Land; he led them around the desert for 40 years! (And shouldn’t Gates be compared to Moses and not the OS?)
mw: Finally, we have a name (for a product that won’t arrive for another 17 months)! I’m glad that bit of suspense is over.
While in the process of defecation, Sputnik was consumed by a herd of ravenous swine.
Whoa!!! They changed the name Apple is in trouble now.
ROFLMAO!!!
Windows and Linux is the defacto standard for the idiots..
Ford sells alot of Focus’s too…..
STILL sitting in front of his Hasta la Vista Windows SP 3 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 a DICK!!!
Apple is the De’Facto Standard for tree hugging MetroHomoSexuals who love dildo’s stuck up there asses by steve jobs.
Launch video pathetic. Quality even worse.
Visual Interface Still Trailing Apple
Sorry “their”
Has anyone thought about this….
Paul Thurrott is really Sputkik.
Closet Machead coping with being a shill for Microslob Winblows?
Does anyone here remember “V”, the cheesy 1980’s TV miniseries from the States? Boy could we have some fun with this.
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So anyway… “Vista”. WTF?
The Redmondites have clearly been spending way too much time looking at Mt. Rainier and daydreaming.
Possibilities mean nothing unless you act. Why don’t they get back to work and fix what’s wrong with so much of their software?
Vista, a “distant view” and “an extensive mental view”. How appropriate.
How appropriate, Swindle LongYwan renamed “ Vista”! LongYawn will remain just that: a distance view!! Happy waiting to the Windows hoes like Sputnik, NoMacForYou, Sammy, Lisa, and last but not least, DickWitch!
What do:
Weapons of Mass Distruction
Jimmy Hoffa
Windows Vista
The Holy Grail
The Secrets Of The Universe
have in common?
ditch witch you turd sniffer…no need to rain on anothers parade with your bullshit. Keep spending your days fixing whatever windows/linux problems there are. I’m sure you’re totally satisfied with your life – that’s why you’re here trying to get a reaction out of people who are actually happy with their computers.
Hasta La Vista Baby
Who cares what they name it.
When we will soon be able to run Windows, Linux, and OS X on a Macintel machine, consumers will be able to choose for themselves.
And it won’t be that bloated, registry-filled crap called Windows.
Ray – that’s perfect!
Steve can get Arnie and James Cameron to okay use of those Terminator clips and use those in a commercial.
‘Excellent’ quality of rant from DitchWitch.. setting the same standards as the software he champions.. Just sh*te, nothing more, nothing less. And it shows.