SuperSite Flashback: Its Name is … Vista?

Microsoft introduces the term “aspirational” to the tech world

Longhorn was to provide the foundation for a second decade of Windows dominance and catapult Microsoft past its non-innovative reputation. But the project was too far-reaching, and too visionary, and after years of fruitless work, Jim Allchin and Bill Gates finally accepted the inevitable: Microsoft had to reset Longhorn and start over from scratch. The resulting product was ultimately named Windows Vista. But Vista wasn’t the Longhorn that Microsoft initially promised. And in a harbinger of things it come, it was the first major Windows release that users shunned almost universally.

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