_(Windows Frumpy?)_
In Latvian, “Vista” means “fowl” or even “frumpy woman” in slang.
“Everybody in my office bursts out laughing whenever I start talking about the new operating system,” 26-year-old customer assistance manager Zanis, who works in the Latvian capital, Riga, told AFP.
At Microsoft Latvia, they have opted to play up Vista’s positive aspects and point energetically to the more poetic, international definition of the name.
“The name of the new operating system is well known in international communication and means a vision, a view, a perspective,” public relations manager for Microsoft Latvia, Ilze Nagla, told AFP.
“When Latvians learn of the technical opportunities the system offers, they will pay more attention to its advantages, not its name,” she added.
Source: Yahoo! News
Well, any form of publicity would be good.
[via CrunchGear]
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well i am latvian
am quite surprised anyone even noted this outside Latvia
by latvian (Apr 15, 2007 at 5 PM)trust me most pc users here won’t care even if MS cals it B*T*H since all they use is word and one.lv ….poor simple minded fools
anyway some of us are quite more interested in licence since it is kinda much like Troyan licences…and we also are quite not in awe about it’s performance(well evrything in time)