What's your take on the name?  

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  1. 1. What's your take on the name?

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vis?ta [ v?stə ] (plural vis?tas)

noun

1. scenic view: a scenic or panoramic view

2. view seen through narrow opening: a view seen through a long narrow opening, e.g. between rows of trees or buildings

3. mental picture: a mental picture covering a wide range of objects or a long succession of events in the past or future

open up vistas of expansion into hitherto untapped markets

[Mid-17th century. < Italian, "view" < past participle of vedere "see" < Latin videre]

Vista? What a stupid name, that's pathetic, I've actually noticed that Microsoft had some of the best names for products like "Visual Studio .NET", "Windows XP Proffesional", " Microsoft Works", stuff like that, and now Windows Vista?

Hopefully, this will be proven wrong tommorow. :yes:

If you look up the definition of Vista, it means this:

1. A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through an opening, as between rows of buildings or trees.

2. An avenue or other passage affording such a view.

Maybe the Bob Stein (The Microsoft Employee) was using 'Vista' as a word or phrase to describe that it is the Future Windows version that he can see 'over the horizon', not 'Vista' as an actual name.

Vista is a Portuguese word too.?;)) And it means vision or view...

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It's also an English word...

Was never gonna be called Longhorn... That's a code name!

Xbox wasn't going to be called Xbox... It was only a code name.

that is the worst name i have ever heard of, i mean sure i understand what the meaning is behind it and thats all nice but i dunno, just doesnt click, not at all.

just forgot, look up the meaning of vista on urbandictionary.com and it explains everything :p

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