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It's (almost) official: Longhorn to be called Vista
by Marc Perton Jul 22nd 2005 at 12:12AM
I've kind of gotten used to calling it Longhorn, but it looks like Microsoft's branding geniuses (you know, the folks who came up with Bob) have decreed that the next version of Windows will officially be called — drum roll, please — Windows Vista. Yeah, I know. Hey, it's better than Windows 2009, right? (And, as Barb says, over on Engadget, that's Vista, "as in 'a view into the distance' which surely refers to the prolonged development timeline of the OS.")
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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VVV said 10:20AM on 7-22-2005
vista simply means view not view in the distance
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