Hasta la Vista, Baby!
So, Microsoft's new operating system, code-named Longhorn, has finally been named. And the new name is...Vista!
Which marketing moron thought this name up? All I can say is, "Hasta la, baby, hasta la!"
According to a recent review of Vista beta build 5098 in eWeek, data will be easier to organize, there's a piece of eye-candy called Aero Glass that has a cool transparent look (and takes a beefy video card to run) -- it's not clear what this resource hog actually does from the review -- and Internet Explorer 7 has, drum roll please, tabbed dialogs (like Firefox now). I can't wait. Really. A tabbed dialog in a browser just makes me so excited.
Clearly media flacks would like to make Vista seem something momentous. But even so, as another eWeek columnist opined, Microsoft has an "uphill battle to convince enterprises that Vista is compelling enough to justify the cost and effort..." So, maybe the name does fit.
If you are interested, here's a slide show of the Vista UI.
Posted by Harold Davis at August 1, 2005 10:12 PM
