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re: hardly a unique name
Thursday, August 11, 2005 at 2:19 pm
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Posted by Samuel (34 messages posted)


I was perfectly happy with "Longhorn" lol


On Tuesday, August 9, 2005 at 3:28 am, Dino wrote:
>The name Vista is already used for other systems.
>
>In the USA, the VA health system calls their software system VistA.
>There are more computer-related and other uses (http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=vista).
>
>Microsoft is practically guaranteeing that the VA won't adopt the new Vista while
>the old VistA is still around just to avoid confusion over the name.


Written in response to:
hardly a unique name (Dino: Tuesday, August 9, 2005 at 3:28 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: hardly a unique name (Cam: Friday, August 12, 2005 at 3:08 am)
*re: hardly a unique name (Cam: Friday, August 12, 2005 at 3:19 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-hardly a unique name (Dino: Tue, Aug 9, 2005, 3:28 am)
*re: hardly a unique name (Erik: Tue, Aug 9, 2005, 2:53 pm)
-re: hardly a unique name (werner: Tue, Aug 9, 2005, 4:20 pm)
-re: hardly a unique name (Dino: Tue, Aug 9, 2005, 4:52 pm)
*re: hardly a unique name (werner: Tue, Aug 9, 2005, 5:04 pm)
-re: hardly a unique name (666: Wed, Aug 10, 2005, 3:18 pm)
-re: hardly a unique name (werner: Wed, Aug 10, 2005, 3:25 pm)
-re: hardly a unique name (666: Wed, Aug 10, 2005, 3:45 pm)
*re: hardly a unique name (werner: Wed, Aug 10, 2005, 5:53 pm)
*re: hardly a unique name (alfred: Wed, Aug 10, 2005, 7:50 pm)
*re: hardly a unique name (Cam: Thu, Aug 11, 2005, 3:18 am)
*re: Winnie ther Pooh, maybe? (Cam: Thu, Aug 11, 2005, 3:39 am)
-re: hardly a unique name (Samuel: Thu, Aug 11, 2005, 2:19 pm)
-re: hardly a unique name (Cam: Fri, Aug 12, 2005, 3:08 am)
*re: hardly a unique name (werner: Fri, Aug 12, 2005, 1:49 pm)
*re: hardly a unique name (Cam: Fri, Aug 12, 2005, 3:19 am)
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