14 DAY TRIAL // Windows Vista hardcore fan has named his newborn girl, what else, but Vista. Talk about brand dedication and loyalty... Microsoft MVP Bil Simser made no secret of the fact that he has actually christened his daughter after Microsoft's latest operating system. However, Simser revealed that he is betting on the fact that by the time Vista will be all grown up, there won't be many people still associating her name with Microsoft's Windows Vista platform. But considering that there are some of us that just "yesterday" were using Windows 98...
"Vista Avalon Simser was born May 18th at 18:10 MST, weighing in at 5 pounds and 11 ounces (well, 10.6 ounces but the hospital seems to round it up)," the father proudly recalled. "Some people are shocked and probably scratching your head why a nerd would potentially put their child through the slings and arrows of naming their spawn after an operating system. Hopefully by the time she's old enough for someone to make fun of her name, nobody will remember where it came from."
But if you think that Vista is a weird name for a girl, you first have to consider the fact that Simser considered naming an eventual boy Dev (short for developer) Orion Simser, or in other words DOS. In this context, Vista is nothing more than an upgrade for DOS... "Vista (the operating system) hadn't been released yet, but we looked at it on paper. Vista. I liked the sound of it. True, it was spawned from the name of Microsoft's next operating system but it was also a word seeded in the Italian language (from visto) meaning a sight. Well, a daughter who is a sight. That works for us. Besides, above all (other than the glares we'll get from geeks and this blog entry) Vista is a pretty name for a girl," Simser explained.
However, there is even more Microsoft trademark love in the Simser family, or code-name affinity. Vista Avalon Simser's middle name is nothing more than the code-name for Windows Presentation Foundation.