So there are headlines and then there are headlines!

The latest Dev Shed mailing list had a link to this article. I thought it was rather interesting from the office stand point. My superrvisor might need to look for a new job…
$100 laptop
$2 broken Crank handle
“If you live in a mud hut,” one participant asked, “what use is that computer for your children who don’t have a doctor within walking distance?”
Priceless!

So… I could not come up with real reason why Microsoft* named their OS ‘Microsoft Windows Vista’. Then, it dawned on me that I really didn’t know what a vista was in terms of the context they were using it. So I used Tiger’s happy little dictionay feature… low and behold it all started to make sense.
*Copyright & Trademark of the Microsoft Company IP used as a reference.