MICROSOFT'S next name for its next operating system, 'Vienna' might cause a few headaches for the Vole in the long term.
It might be an ok name for a town, but as those who still have terrible nightmares about Midge Ure's moustache will attest, the word is cemented into the consciousness of those who saw grown men wearing ruffled shirts in the 1980s.
It also associated with the cold war phrase, "good night Vienna" which refers to an incident that causes a Nuclear War - or a Ringo Starr solo album, which is pretty much the same thing. Still the name is a lot better than 'Black comb' which was the marketing department's first go.
But there are other associations that might cause a few problems for the Vole. Open Saucers will be tremendously miffed that Microsoft has nicked the name of a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OSX.
Apple fan boys already hassle the Vole for copying ideas from their favourite computer company but this one might be a clone too far. But we don't think the Vole has thought that deeply.
It certainly has not splashed out on the Website vienna.com either.
But then Microsoft would probably prefer it that the city of Vienna itself was not dropping Windows and moving to Linux instead.
There is nothing official from Microsoft as the current obsession is trying to get people to buy Vista and spokesVoles tend to confuse anything with a 'V' in the name with Vista even if it isn't.
A spokesVole told PC World that it was not giving official guidance to the public yet about the next version of Windows, other than Microsoft is working on it. Roughly two, to twoand a half years he reckoned might be a "a reasonable time frame" to cobble together a new operating system. He could be right. Vista took twice as long, however.
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It might be an ok name for a town, but as those who still have terrible nightmares about Midge Ure's moustache will attest, the word is cemented into the consciousness of those who saw grown men wearing ruffled shirts in the 1980s.
It also associated with the cold war phrase, "good night Vienna" which refers to an incident that causes a Nuclear War - or a Ringo Starr solo album, which is pretty much the same thing. Still the name is a lot better than 'Black comb' which was the marketing department's first go.
But there are other associations that might cause a few problems for the Vole. Open Saucers will be tremendously miffed that Microsoft has nicked the name of a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OSX.
Apple fan boys already hassle the Vole for copying ideas from their favourite computer company but this one might be a clone too far. But we don't think the Vole has thought that deeply.
It certainly has not splashed out on the Website vienna.com either.
But then Microsoft would probably prefer it that the city of Vienna itself was not dropping Windows and moving to Linux instead.
There is nothing official from Microsoft as the current obsession is trying to get people to buy Vista and spokesVoles tend to confuse anything with a 'V' in the name with Vista even if it isn't.
A spokesVole told PC World that it was not giving official guidance to the public yet about the next version of Windows, other than Microsoft is working on it. Roughly two, to twoand a half years he reckoned might be a "a reasonable time frame" to cobble together a new operating system. He could be right. Vista took twice as long, however.
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