Curt 1 Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 Microsoft fans (which is of course most of us) - Windows Vista! Yey! NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Microsoft announced Friday that it will call its next-generation operating system "Windows Vista." The much-anticipated operating system had formerly been code-named "Longhorn." http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/22/technology/microsoft_vista/index.htm?cnn=yes You can even watch the name announcement (if you really want to) http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0507/25234/Win_Name_MBR.asx Link to post Share on other sites
yamayamayama 2 Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 That's great news. I just hope it's as good as all their previous releases. Link to post Share on other sites
HoTRoD 2 Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 Quote: It sounds like a spa resort in the mountains, but the name was apparently inspired to “bring clarity to your world.” Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 DOS was a terrible operating system, hopelessly unstable. Everything up to Windows 98 was horrible. MS fixed the problem by ditching everything, and bringing out NT as Windows 2000. At least now if an application goes down it doesn't invariably crash the system: the Blue Screen of Death Link to post Share on other sites
Error404 0 Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 Can't wait. It sounds like just what we want. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Yippeeee. Sounds like a car.. And code named "Longhorn" Who's making these names? Link to post Share on other sites
sava 0 Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 All the codenames for operating systems are mountains. No idea where long horn is Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Perhaps the guy who thought that one up was just boasting..... Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 I'm queueing up already. Link to post Share on other sites
fukdane 2 Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 What a totally totally crap name. The mountain names sound far better. Vista??? Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Computer related question. I normally do word processing in WordPerfect, but it doesn't handle Hiragana. I have MS Word, sigh, but as ever, it won't format correctly. Anyone know of a basic package where I can easily create columns in Latin and Kana? Link to post Share on other sites
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