**Microsoft Alert** Official Longhorn Name is Windows Vista

[EyeMWing]

Well, that's just so grotesque that it actually hardens my "XP Fo Lyfe" stance.

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: yankeesfan
Vista? That reminds me of some resort place for some reason.

I think thats the point.


Imagine this: You go to buy an operating sytem, and you see Windows Vista. You imagine the peacefulness, and the relaxing atmosphere...the fact that everything seems to work for you, the day is perfect and the night is full of romance.
By purchasing Windows Vista, its like a vacation to an exotic resort that never ends...

😉

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: magomago

Originally posted by: yankeesfan
Vista? That reminds me of some resort place for some reason.

I think thats the point.


Imagine this: You go to buy an operating sytem, and you see Windows Vista. You imagine the peacefulness, and the relaxing atmosphere...the fact that everything seems to work for you, the day is perfect and the night is full of romance.
By purchasing Windows Vista, its like a vacation to an exotic resort that never ends...

😉

It reminds me of an old folks home. That's bad. Very bad.

 

[sharkeeper]

It reminds me of an old folks home. That's bad. Very bad.

That's because some of us will be ALF-bound (Assisted Living Facility) by the time service pack 1 comes out for it.

 

[igowerf]

The name seems to fit with Microsoft's commercials. It's not too bad. I think we'll get used to it really fast.

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: magomago

Originally posted by: yankeesfan
Vista? That reminds me of some resort place for some reason.

I think thats the point.


Imagine this: You go to buy an operating sytem, and you see Windows Vista. You imagine the peacefulness, and the relaxing atmosphere...the fact that everything seems to work for you, the day is perfect and the night is full of romance.
By purchasing Windows Vista, its like a vacation to an exotic resort that never ends...

😉

Yeah, Kind of like going to Guantanamo Bay

 

[alien42]

anyone know anything about this "sales conference in atlanta"?

 

[Mo0o]

As long as it's an improvement on XP, Ill be happy. Just no ME disaster please

 

[Mojoed]

Dammit! I just tried to register vistaos.com. Domain showed as available. I grabbed my credit card and started filling in my info. The page then times out when I try to finalize. I do another few whois searches and all time out... Finally it comes back as being registered as of July 22nd (today). :|

I just missed it!

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
As long as it's an improvement on XP, Ill be happy. Just no ME disaster please

Well, if you call this an improvement, then yes.
If you're normal like most of us...OMFG it's gonna suck...

 

[anxi80]

man thats weird. my high school's mascot was the longhorns. and my high school is located in the city of vista. omfg!! ms is constructing their new os 2 houses down from me!!! im going to randomly knock on doors with a shotgun demanding a beta!!

 

[BullsOnParade]

Man indian tech support for this is going to be great.
Welcome to Windows Wista, how may we help you.

 

[Merlyn3D]

Hopefully by the time this is out I'll be using OS X on my wintel box. Vista.....that name just makes me NOT wanna use that OS.

 

[Otaking]

Go Horns! :beer:

 

[Ricemarine]

Man we really need those MS guys to come up with better names...

 

[Lorn]

Are you kidding me? Vista is horrible.

 

[Intelia]

I like Buffy the cow best

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Sluggo
Excellent, now I can build a fast computer and call it The Vista Cruiser

God I have longed for this day.

i think i just woke up the neighbors i laughed so hard

 

[Colt45]

WinNT 6.1 works for me

 

[Barfo]

Originally posted by: magomago

Originally posted by: yankeesfan
Vista? That reminds me of some resort place for some reason.

I think thats the point.


Imagine this: You go to buy an operating sytem, and you see Windows Vista. You imagine the peacefulness, and the relaxing atmosphere...the fact that everything seems to work for you, the day is perfect and the night is full of romance.
By purchasing Windows Vista, its like a vacation to an exotic resort that never ends...

😉

and a screen the colour of the ocean (blue) appears every other hour and piss you off :laugh:

 

[Insane3D]

So why exactly do we need a replacement for XP?

 

[Gulzakar]

whenever I hear about longhorn I always think of the "Family Truckster"

 

[Ricemarine]

Even Final Fantasy VII had a better name than Vista...

Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XI
..........

It works lol. I don't play final fantasy btw.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper
Version names are fine.

NT 5.2 it is.

Or is this going to (officially) be NT 6.0?

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When is Intel going to dump the PENTIUM name and come up with something new???!

the really stupid thing is that NT started with version 3.0. there was never a product called 'windows NT 1.0.' two possible reasons: 1) regular windows was on version 3.0 or so when NT was released; 2) the NT project grew out of the split between IBM and MS over the direction of OS/2, which may have gone through a couple of versions and given MS a codebase that already had 2 significant versions.

of course, knowing that, you realize that if normal naming conventions were followed, XP would be Windows NT 3.1. and of course 3.1 was the first decent version of windows

 

[DAGTA]

I think Vista is a better name than NT, ME, or XP. Most people are so accustomed to those names now that they probably have forgotten how stupid they sounded at first. Anyway, I don't care what it is named. If it's an improvement over XP, I'll buy it. I've been happy with XP Pro.