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Windows Vista: Take the poll

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Windows Vista: Take the poll

What do you think of it?

from WinCustomize Forums
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 #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Sorry, I keep getting thoughts after I hit "submit". What about "Microsoft's Super-Duper Operating System" Or Windows SDOS? Or they could get direct and call it "Windows Orange"... ooooh, wouldn't that piss off Apple? OK, I'm done.
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
VIS-t-A? Reminds me too much of VISA. Which means MONEY!! And MORE money!!
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
First, I think the claims that there's some connection with VISA is insane. It's purely coincidence..

As for the name.. It's interesting. It's not normal for software, I'm used to version numbers or letters or whatever. This sort of makes it feel less like a peice of software and more like an actual "product", which kind of makes sense..
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Insane? It was a joke!! Sheesh!
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It makes me think of Dodge Colt Vista. It has no teeth, like Cougar, Tiger, Panther ...

How about Dragon?
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How bout Magical Unicorn
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top
VIS-t-A? Reminds me too much of VISA. Which means MONEY!! And MORE money!!


Exactly what I was thinking.

Maybe Bill and the boys went our for coffee this morning, you know, to toss around ideas for names for the latest and greatest Windows OS, and Bill pulled out his Visa to pay, and......

(Sounds of coffee shop in the background) Steve Ballmer and various MS flunkies are comparing golf scores, telling Linux and Mac jokes, and generally avoiding the dreaded topic of coming up with a new name. (It was going to be "Windows 360" but the Xbox boys snagged that one before the OS guys ever had a chance) Somewhat detached from the rest, The Chief Software Architect is lost in thought. ("Hmmmm, if Linus can have an OS named after himself, why not me? " he muses. "Bill-ix?, Gat-ix, maybe.....hmmmm")
At this point the waitress brings the check. BIll pulls out his wallet, pulls out his Visa card (branded with the Windows logo of course) and suddenly he has it!!
"Windows Visa" Bill proclaims out loud.
COnversation stops at the table, for the great King of Earth and OS's has spoken. All look at Bill.
"The market name for Longhorn, we'll call it Windows Visa!"
A brave, but nervous MS flunky, humbly and discreetly points out that, while it is the best idea he has ever heard, the Visa name is already licensed.
All fall silent again. Bill looks at his card and rubs his chin and thinks.
"Hmmmm, Vis...o, no that won't work. Vis...ex? No, that won't do either"
Bill looks out the window (window, get it?) at the beautiful view. A virtual panorama of beauty, a...a...a VISTA!!!
"Vista, we'll call it Vista!" Bill proclaims.
"I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it" yells Ballmer (Think of his developer speech a while back)
Everyone else quickly agrees. King Bill has done it again, they all agree.
Three cheers for Bill, three cheers for VISTA!! Everyone will love it!
They all rush out of the restaurant to get back to the offices and tell the world of the wonderful news.
Of course, in all the excitement, the waitress never did get paid.
Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How about Dragon?


..they have not called me for permission, yet
Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm one of the few here who like the name VISTA.....alot better than Longhorn which I never liked!! Hope they work out most of the problems & it's a WINNER!!
Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top
They changed the name after all that has been made with the Longhorn Logo?


It should have been well known Longhorn was just a code name in the same way Whistler was the codename for XP
Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I like vista, good name, fresh view hopefully.
I think Windows Double Glazing or Windows DG would have been more 'Fitting' LOL!
sorry for the bad joke, couldnt resist
Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top
With XP, I finally got used to (and came to like) the somewhat cryptic two-letter OS names that began with "NT". Now Microsoft takes a new tack and adopts a name that sounds like the Vista Cruiser on That 70's Show. That's right, it sounds like an old car ... and many other things like VISTA, Volunteers in Service to America at http://www.friendsofvista.org/
If we're lucky, maybe VISTA will sue MS for illegal use of its name!

I do think that "Vista" implies that MS hopes the user will be looking forward to the NEXT Windows release even as he picks a shrink-wrapped copy of Vista off the retail shelf.
Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top

"Microsoft's Super-Duper Operating System"

MSDOS.....

Yep...sounds fresh and new and funky...

Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Personally, I never understood why they went away from version numbers and hid them behind either years or goofy names. Oh, wait, yes I do - it's so they could charge for a minor revision! (95-->98-->98SE-->Me all windows 4.x), (2000-->XP-->2003 all windows 5.x).
Reply #41 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




I totally agree... And the fact it just sounds plain cool.
Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Think about the major selling points (that are still in it): Aero, Indigo, Avalon, and the new Red Screen of Death to go along with the Blue one. Vista has a connection with sight, and that's a huge part of the new version. Joe User isn't going to care about all the new under-the-hood stuff that is the real work of putting together Vista. It's the look and feel of it all.

At least it isn't some sort of contrived pun like (the) Windows (e)XP(erience).
Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I guess my first impression was one of sound and not so much sight. v-i-s-t-a....I don't know, like Windows Tulip or Daisy. Just wimpy. Maybe if they come up with a fruity enough logo, you'll start seeing it in hollywood films instead of an apple.
Heck, Palm just did it with their new generation pop tart logo. Looks like it belongs on a can of orange soda.
Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well, there was no "on the fence" option for the poll...

...so I chose "don't like it" ~since I dislike the name more than I like it. Wasn't a big fan of the name "Longhorn" either.

But, whatever they name it ~it just better be good!
Reply #49 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What was the codename for XP?