Longhorn graduates to a real name
July 22nd, 2005 at 1:09 am by rkuo
Engadget is reporting that the next version of Windows, formerly code named Longhorn, has now been officially named “Windows Vista”. Presumably this name was picked to associate our choice in operating systems with pleasant visions of rolling hills or mountainous landscapes.
Interestingly enough, the name “Windows Vista” was chosen after months of research determined that people were turned off by the names “Windows Monthly Security Patch Edition” and “Windows You-Have-To-Buy-This-Anyway-So-We’ll-Name-This-Whatever-The-Hell-We-Want Edition”.
OK enough joking around. 
Seriously, we love Windows and this is a big step forward for Redmond. Congratulations to the Longhorn team!
July 22nd, 2005 at 6:45 am
haha, nice.
July 22nd, 2005 at 9:45 am
I know you love Windows and everything, but would you consider a Linux version of BTV Link? I’ll bet you’d have lots of takes from those of us who have a few spare, cheap boxes around
July 22nd, 2005 at 11:28 am
Windows Vista = Windows 6.0 = Windows VI = WinVI
July 22nd, 2005 at 2:38 pm
That’s a good one Don.
When XP came out, I stayed true to 98 for gaming purposes and NT/2000 for server work. I did not make the move to XP until I saw that they stabilized the video processing component and fixed a large amount of the bugs.
The same is going to hold true here. They are going to be introducing a new filesystem (though if it makes it WITH the release of Longhorn, who knows) and I for one will not be on the bleeding edge to trust my data to an unproven filesystem. Let some other company work out the bugs.
Right now, I love lots of things in Windows, but the moment there are comparable integrated platforms to challenge it (i.e. the Mac OS, Linux, UNIX desktop platforms), I may make a permanent switch. My work interaction with others forces me to use Gates and company’ it is most certainly not by choice anymore.
And that’s a shame.
August 5th, 2005 at 7:10 pm
yeah, its called 64-bit….
how about a new file system while we’re at it (like in the near future!)?
/some linux support from snapstream would be nice.
January 19th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
. . . Still using GNU/Linux.
Don’t plan to ever move to anything but open source.
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