Windows Vista: Take the poll

What do you think of it?

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On the bottom left on the home page of WinCustomize.com there is a poll being taken.  If you're a registered user of WinCustomize.com, please tell us what you think of the name, Windows Vista.  Windows Vista is the name Microsoft has given to its next version of Windows (previously called Longhorn).
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
They changed the name after all that has been made with the Longhorn Logo?
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmm ... undecided at this point. It doesn't really do much for me but it's not like it's a horrible name.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Didn't much care for the name before.Seemed silly to name it after a dumb animal.
Watch out for the Vista skins! Who's gonna release the first one? - any ideas?
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Like it - vista gives the software a feel for the future ... it flows with "windows" ... Longhorn sounded Texan like (no offense).. too much like cattle
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm pretty neutral towards the name.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I thought "Longhorn" had something to do with the Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort in British Columbia...
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Good grief! Let Microsoft call it what they like - after all it's their product.

Just as long as it works - and lives up to the hype, that's all that should matter really.

How does that expression go? "Don't judge a book by it's cover"?
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well, as usual your poll fails to have an appropriate answer for my opinion, which is 'ehh' ....... I neither like or dislike the name. It doesn't 'speak' to me, but doesn't 'bother' me ...... at this point I don't care what they call the OS.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I love it , its great, actually if you wanna know why they called it VISTA well because in spanish and italian it means : sight!! BTW you ppl should not care about the name, u should car about the content right??
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I do agree its about time that they got away from version numbers (though still used internally) and year names. Although I think XP was an excellent name. Vista certainly is more telling than for example OS X. As already mentioned, the content and how it improves computing is vastly more important than its name. Unless of course it had been named Cowdung or something lol.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Since the betas usually blow up your PC, why don't they name it Windows "Terrorist" or Windows "Al Queda"?
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I like Longhorn better. Vista sounds like a vacation spot in Europe.
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If windows stuck with the longhorn, they could be like apple with the updates...

Windows Longhorn
Windows Steer
Windows Cattle
Windows Bull
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Good grief! Let Microsoft call it what they like - after all it's their product.


Who's trying to stop them? It's simply a poll asking whether or not you like the name.

Longhorn sounded Texan like (no offense).. too much like cattle


What's wrong with that? Beef is my favorite food!

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Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Don't like it. It sounds too feminine. Like some kind of new image browser. Longhorn was definitly not feminine, but I didn't like it either. It's like, "YeeHaw Partner! I ust got'n me a new oprat'n system fur me new 'puter! Hot, diggity dog!." Vista is like, "O my gosh, I was just in the like new computer store in the mall and I saw the cutest new windows thing. It had like the cutest name and, O my gosh, I just loved the little logo."
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
RE Vista- what's wrong with using version numbers like a real program?

RE Longhorn- I was hoping it wasn't political
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
vis·ta Audio pronunciation of "vista" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (vst)
n.

1.
1. A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through an opening, as between rows of buildings or trees.
2. An avenue or other passage affording such a view.
2. 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).

You can go two ways on this, in my eyes...the positive, which is interesting, is making a play on the word 'windows'. THat boring old window is now a 'vista' to newer and better things, affording a new view.

The negative is that you can say Vista means 'looking at future goals', where as they should be saying the future is 'here' 'now'. Being a pessimist my first thought when i heard the word 'vista' was the latter.. that the new OS isn't going to break much new ground.

Overall however, i think the name is neutrol and boring. Think of it like a car. You want to buy a car with a hot name like 'cheeta' or *cough* 'tiger' or 'panther'. XP was neat. But 'vista'. I dunno. i can't imagine the design being very interesting, nor the marketing strategy. Longhorn, as a codename, and even when XP was Whistler were interesting names that made you think of different things. I just think they could have done more with it. Hell.. even call it 'aero' for 'light and fluffy'.
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I personally think it should've been called Windows XP2, because XP was the best name so far, and people go silly for sequels..
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Or maybe Ultimate Windows! That would rock!
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Just something I like about the word "Ultimate"...