Windows Vista
Apparently Microsoft has decided to call the Longhorn final product Windows Vista. See article here. I’m not sure where they pulled this from, but it smells of feces. 
I don’t think this name will do any better than Windows Me, and definitely won’t give this new Operating System any justice.
I also read an article two years ago about how Microsoft would be dropping Windows from the name of their next OS to eliminate any legal battles that had concerning monopolistic practices. Basically, all of the litigation surrounding the monopoly has Windows specifically mentioned, and if they no longer had the Windows product, the issue would go away. This new name announcement just tells me that they don’t care about the legal battles.
Now I need to figure out if I am going to pronounce it like an American would or with a Spanish accent. 
BTW, Ubuntu is still running strong and only gets rebooted when my whole neighborhood blacks out, but there is not much I can do about that.
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