Windows Vista How Vista, XP, and Blackcomb got their name

Matt

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Windows Code name blackcomb now Vienna, and Windows NT 5.1, codenamed "Whistler"; were both named after the Whistler-Blackcomb resort. Vista, codename longhorn, which was an intermediate release, was named after a bar at the Whistler-Blackcomb resort.

Isn't Microsoft smart at the naming?
 
Same. But anyway, these names are quite fascinating, they're not simple. Vista means some kind of Window is Spanish or something along the lines...
 
Vista is a beautiful view, and XP is a shortened form of eXPerience.
 
Kyle said:
Vista is a beautiful view, and XP is a shortened form of eXPerience.
Click to expand...

Correct, that's why we have good wallpaper in Windows Vista.
 
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