VISTA == Vista IS a Terrible Acronym. Actually, having it all caps would be cooler. Really, “Windows Sight“? Or “Windows View“? That's so lame it's not even punny. Even “Windows V6” would be an improvement.

Or perhaps they moved the letters of “ATI Stock Value“ around a bit?

Seriously, with all the money they've invested, couldn't they have come up with a better name? Just think of the conversations -- “Are you running Vista?”, “Vista's preinstalled.”, “This won't work on Vista.” “I can't see the Vista boot screen.“ I'm terrified at what horrible marketing campaign might come off of this. (Dinosaurs not being able to see over a horizon or something...) Actually, Vista could be a very cool name, for like the accessibility features, or some small visualization program (perhaps a photo management applet), but not for the OS. Will we have “Vista Server [2008]“? “Visual Studio Vista“ (shudders). This is especially disappointing with such interesting codenames (Avalon, Indigo).

It's got no level of coolness (XP has an X in it, and that automatically makes it hip). Worst name since Windows 95. I'm pretty convinced that within about 20 hours, someone could write a program to pick names for Longhorn that'd be better than “Vista” at least 50% of the time.

Well, at least the product is going to be amazing. And more importantly, VS2005 remains impressive, and from the bit I know of Orcas, that'll be excellent too. Just makes you wonder what's up at MS when they can't even name their biggest product of the decade...