Microsoft has decided on an official name for Longhorn: Windows Vista.
That’s according to sources close to the company who requested anonymity. They said that Microsoft unveiled the name in Atlanta on Thursday at the company’s internal sales event, known as the Microsoft Global Sales Briefing, or MGB.
Word of Longhorn’s new name began leaking to the Web on Thursday evening. One Windows site discovered that Microsoft registered the WindowsVista.US domain name. Microsoft is expected to make the official announcement of the new name on Friday morning.
Microsoft has relied primarily on date-oriented names for many of its products, although it has shied away from those on occasion.
The last major version of Windows, code-named “Whistler,” eventually was christened Windows XP.
Microsoft officials declined to comment on the specifics of a “Longhorn-related” news announcement slated for Friday morning.
Longhorn Beta 1 is widely expected to be unveiled next week. Beta 2 is due in the first half of 2006. Microsoft officials confirmed on Thursday the final release is still on track for the latter half of 2006.
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9 Comments, add your own...
1. K | July 22nd, 2005 at 10:54 am
Windows Vista?? these names keep getting worse, XP2 would have been better.
2. Purgatory72 | July 22nd, 2005 at 12:02 pm
That is too much windows, when will they build the house!
3. moe | July 22nd, 2005 at 1:35 pm
windows windows windows!
4. Ozy | July 22nd, 2005 at 5:03 pm
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000433051518/
Windows Vista it is.
5. Hellraiser | July 22nd, 2005 at 5:25 pm
The snitch who gave the information will be soon without a job!! Isn’t this right Fadibou?
6. Latifa | July 22nd, 2005 at 7:15 pm
vista dosen’t sound so like het new tecknology it’s like astala bista or somin’ lol
7. Patrick | July 22nd, 2005 at 9:06 pm
it would’ve been funny if Bill Gates released Windows - Dog, or Windows - Wolf
Thief!
8. fadibou | July 22nd, 2005 at 9:25 pm
wow , this is news to me :)
but I love the name
creates excitement around the new windows :)
9. Pussycat Dolls | November 21st, 2005 at 1:45 am
Pussycat Dolls Pussycat Dolls, to make a a-speakin mist-rack of any Pussycat Dolls that may scower put into my pillow-slips by my generous frontierswoman ; and I will double my fire-horse to staff my sluice-tunnel,
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