What does Microsoft's Vista mean?
Found on Inquirer on Saturday, 23 July 2005
Vista is in Latin a great but rather indeterminate noun. The word indicates a landscape, so that if you were taken to the top of a mountain, for example, you might exclaim to your companion: "Sheesh! I spot a tiny vole in the vista ahead!"
Then there's the Spanish "Hasta La Vista". According to Google translate, this means "good bye", as in English, "ta ra!" or "Terminator" [shorely termites? Ed.] as the Americans call white ants.
In Italian, apparently, "vista" means "sight", a function of them things most anthropoids have two of in front of their faces.
In French, "vista" means "vista". But the INQ has to report that in the proto European language Sanskrit, Vista means something far more ugly than any of these.
I seems like MS' decision will bring up some funny lawsuits, since "Vista" is probably used widely already. If Warner Bros is just a little bit like Intel, they will sue MS for using "Vista" (oh, whoops, I used "Intel" without permission; that wasn't very "intel"ligent).