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website is up :woot: click

:p

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hahah! you almost got me there.... did check the adress first and then I saw the images load I was like OMFG no!!!

ahaha!

mon osti (I see your from Montreal ;P )

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Who says Microsoft purchased it?  https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...ost&p=586250505

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It says on Bink.nu that although their name isn't on the .com/.net/.org addresses, it is on the .us address.

I really wasn't expecting a name for Windows so soon, though... I was expecting a bit more hype first.

website is up :woot: click

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LMAO nice :D

I wonder what Mr. Gates' take on the new name ...

Personally, i have never seen a alpha/beta pre-operating system like longhorn catch on and become soo popular... It's a house hold name!! you never really heard as much about Windows Whistler (pre xp) as much as you do about longhorn ... *IF* I had it my way ... i would stick with longhorn .. Keep it as that name... it's very catchy

vista :crazy: :crazy: shows that there are lots of unless ******s working for MS

Seriously though, why not Windows .NET? Aren't they trying to push their dotnet stuff?

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Well wasn't longhorn supposed to be written it 100% .net and then that was postponed? Maybe that is for the version that really is 100% .net.

(I realize that an operating system can't actually be running in 100% .net, but i think it was planned for nearly everything except for the boot code and the .net runtime.)

They registered the domain for windowsvista.us and windowsview.us. Vista means view in spanish.

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Maybe it is going to be called Windows View in english and Windows Vista in spanish :/ still a bad name... even though it is growing on me.

I actually think it sounds nice:)) Not an english name tough... as some have pointed, vista means "vision" or "sight" (that's portuguese or maybe some latin language like spanish).

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It means Vision Or View or Sight and it is an Spanish word :))

Just repeating what I said in Comments:

Very few new names don't sound ridiculous at first. Remember Pentium? That was about the nuttiest one I ever remember, yet it's vanilla today.

At least "vista" is a real word. I like it. It's cool and crisp and modern sounding. If they can find a way of *not* attaching a year to it, say Vista 2007, all the better.

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