Saturday, July 23rd, 2005, 2:33 am
Longhorn Renamed Windows Vista
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Spherical desktop – experimental demo
Longhorn beta – recent screenshot
Longhorn has just become Windows Vista (also see BBC and CNN reports).
The new name, which means view, reflects on the main point of emphasis for the operating system, namely looks. As mentioned before, Longhorn/Vista will be little more than Windows XP with new colours and — as more recently seen — will incorporate transparency. It has been pointed out that Longhorn/Vista will look slightly different from XP, but will offer little or no added value in terms of productivity.
One wonders if the change of names is due to the bad reputation and rumours that are accompanied with the word “Longhorn”. The name Longhorn was derived from the name of a pub, which certainly does not add to credibility.
