# That's just great, Microsoft. Try selling THAT to Sooners and Aggies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 25, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084 "2005-04-25T23:04:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/1 "2005-04-25T23:04:30Z")
[Longhorn?](http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11474501.htm) :rolleyes: I’m sure fans and alums of all the other Big XII schools will alltogether love having that. Then again, maybe it _will_ work out afterall. Whenever Windows fails, we can just blame UT. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/2 "2005-04-25T23:15:47Z")
Errrrrr…are you pitting the choice of name? Because it’s been called that for several years. ---
**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/3 "2005-04-25T23:44:20Z")
It’s also just the internal code name for the project, so the only folks from the other Big 12 schools who will be upset are those that are both football fans and who keep up with the computer press, so the set is rather small. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/4 "2005-04-25T23:46:15Z")
Yeah, evil Microsoft not taking account of college football fans before naming its new operating system. :rolleyes: Just out of interest, what are all those Sooners and Aggies going to do in protest? Switch to Linux? Or Apple? Also—and if i’m wrong i’m sure someone will correct me—it’s not even clear to me that Longhorn will be the actual production name of this new OS. Longhorn is the name that Microsoft is using while it’s in development, but lots of products have development names that are ditched for more market-friendly brand names at release time. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/5 "2005-04-25T23:46:36Z")
Plus, _Longhorn_ is just the code name for it. It’s not actually going to be released named that. [linky](http://www.answers.com/topic/microsoft-codenames). ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/6 "2005-04-26T00:18:21Z")
Huh. I thought it was just a codename. When they release it, they’re going to call it Rio. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/7 "2005-04-26T00:57:33Z")
They did call it Rio. Once. For 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/8 "2005-04-26T02:33:20Z")
With my luck, the release name will be UCLA. Or Virginia Tech. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/9 "2005-04-26T02:37:18Z")
Rio? They’re going to use the Duran Duran song aren’t they. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/10 "2005-04-26T03:39:05Z")
Windows 95 was “Chicago” and Windows XP was “Whistler.” I don’t know what Windows 98’s or 2000’s code names were. If there’s some sort of theme to their code names I haven’t figured it out. Of course when I think of Longhorn the first thing that comes to my mind is “full of bull” but that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![DataZak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/11 "2005-04-26T03:47:15Z")
I misread the name and thought they were naming it after that chicken in the Looney Tunes cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/12 "2005-04-26T03:54:22Z")
> [@The Sausage Creature](#): > > They did call it Rio. Once. For 20 minutes. I love it when Dopermemes morph! ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/13 "2005-04-26T03:55:27Z")
You know, I’ve read this thread several times, and despite the fact that I saw “Longhorn” I kept thinking “Foghorn”. Never realized that’s not what it actually said. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/14 "2005-04-26T04:04:12Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > Windows 95 was “Chicago” and Windows XP was “Whistler.” I don’t know what Windows 98’s or 2000’s code names were. > > If there’s some sort of theme to their code names I haven’t figured it out. > > Of course when I think of Longhorn the first thing that comes to my mind is “full of bull” but that’s just me. Windows 98 was “Memphis,” I believe. Windows 2000 didn’t have one, although the first Service Pack was codenamed “Asteroid.” ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/15 "2005-04-26T12:28:31Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > You know, I’ve read this thread several times, and despite the fact that I saw “Longhorn” I kept thinking “Foghorn”. Never realized that’s not what it actually said. The code name is – I say, the code name is — say, ah you listenin’ to me, boy? Pay attention when y’eldas ah speakin’ to ya. Now, wheah was I? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/16 "2005-04-26T13:38:01Z")
It doesn’t matter what they call it, it still won’t work worth a damn. You’d think after 20 years, they’d have gotten the bugs out. But noooooo… ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/17 "2005-04-26T13:50:46Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Yeah, evil Microsoft not taking account of college football fans before naming its new operating system. :rolleyes: > > Just out of interest, what are all those Sooners and Aggies going to do in protest? Switch to Linux? Or Apple? Go rolleyes yourself. This thread was obviously a _ **joke** _. Maybe it was too much an insider-joke to those who know the intense rivalry between the Aggies and Longhorns and the UT-Oklahoma battle. I was amused; but then I’m an Aggie. Class of 1992. Whoop! And I’ll not use _Longhorn_. Though I’m troubled by whether I’ll use Tiger. I hate LSU even more than the tea-sippers. See, that’s more joking. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/18 "2005-04-26T14:04:17Z")
Thanks, **Homebrew**. I was going to figure that many people would get the joke and if they didn’t, oh well, I guess they didn’t read the multitude of Pit threads during the NCAA Football post season. I wonder how many construction worker/football fan/computer geek/Trekkers there are out there? I will say this, tho. If they ever name a new OS “HAL,” I’m switching back to Linux! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/19 "2005-04-26T14:14:56Z")
FTR, this isn’t a Pitting. Joke Pittings are not allowed under the current reich. So, I put it in MPSIMS. I also have an older Mac, still running somewhere in the 8s. A friend of mine has a G5 with OSX, and it sure is fast, but I have no need for it. Simply envy. Back to the sortasubject, I first heard of Longhorn maybe about a year or so ago, and I wondered about the silly name then. Didn’t seem to fit in with the previous NT, Me, XP family of names. I didn’t realise it was a prerelease name. Even without being a Sooner fan, I think Longhorn would be a silly name to market an OS under. But, now that point seems to be moo. I mean, moot. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084/20 "2005-04-26T14:26:24Z")
Sillier than “Sooner” or “Aggie”? “Trojan” probably wouldn’t be a great pick, or “Volunteer”. “Cornhusker”, “Buckeye”, “Bulldog”? Who knows… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-just-great-microsoft-try-selling-that-to-sooners-and-aggies/301084.md?page=2)