微软将Longhorn正式命名为“Windows Vista” （编译新闻）

AMTeam.org消息：微软公司上周五正式宣称“Windows Vista”为其操作系统的下一版本的名称，不再象以前一样使用年份或略缩词形式来给其产品命名。

微软首先在上周四的公司会议上宣布了该名称，上周五则在自己的官方网站上正式宣布了Windows Vista 时代的来临，也就是我们过去所称的Longhorn。

在Windows Vista的发布会现场，有一个视频短片介绍Vista这一命名，同时也有短语总结其特点──“清晰，自信，连接”和“为你的世界带来明晰”。微软的解释是它将个人电脑提升到自信的新水平，可以最大程度的开发个人用户的能力。它提供给个人以用户清晰的方式组织和使用信息。它将个人用户、他人、设置有机地组合在一起，帮助用户获得数字生活的完整新体验。

微软称将在明年底前发布其新的操作系统。在其新的Vista网站上，微软称在两周后，Windows Vista beta1，也就是我们过去所说的Longhorn的第一个测试版将在8月3日推出。

美国专利和商标局的在线调查WHOIS表明微软注册了windowsvista.us 和microsoftvista.com的域名。

来源：http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/166401708

Microsoft Dubs Longhorn "Windows Vista"
 
Microsoft Corp. on Friday unveiled "Windows Vista" as the official name of the next version of its popular operating system, setting aside its long practice of using release years or acronyms to describe its flagship product.

The company first disclosed the name Thursday at the company's Microsoft Global Briefing, an employee-only conference being held in Atlanta, but only made the name public on Friday in a webcast. Until then, it was known by the codename of "Longhorn."

At the event, Microsoft showed a short video strutting the Vista name, along with the tag phrases "Clear Confident Connected" and "Bringing clarity to your world." The "clear" reference has a play in Windows Vista, since one of its features is to be transparent window frames.

Microsoft has said it will release the new operating system before the end of next year. The first beta will ship by August 3, less than two weeks from now, Microsoft said on its new Vista Web site.

An online search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database turned up no Microsoft listing for the name, but a WHOIS search revealed that Microsoft has registered such domains as windowsvista.us and microsoftvista.com.