As you may already know, Microsoft announced the official name for Longhorn. They decided to call it Windows Vista. There is nothing wrong with that name in itself. It’s just that… Well, it translates funny…
You see, in Lithuanian the word višta means chicken. Check it for yourself using this online English-Lithuanian dictionary. If you live in Lithuania, you are in for a treat. What would you do if you saw a”Windows Chicken” billboard on your way to work one day? I think I would piss myself :P
Can you imagine Lithuanian tech support in 2006? “Sir, you will need to reboot the chicken!” hehe
So it’s official. I refuse to call the new release anything but “Windows Chicken” (chickendows?). I’m going to sell this to as many people I can. Le’s see if it catches on!
So… Why did the (windows) chicken cross the road?
What a great name! I’m half Lithuanian myself (and always amazed when the country comes up in anything) and will from here on out always refer to Windows Vista as Windows Chicken. Thanks!
I punched Vista into AltaVista BabelFish and it seems to think that in Simplified Chinese it would be Windows Prospect, in Traditional Chinese it would be Windows Scenery and in Korean it would be Windows Rain Star. In most of the translatable languages, it comes out as Vista.
I am a person of Latvian heritage and I speak fluent Latvian. Ever since I heard the name Vista, I have been calling it “Chicken”. My friends and I think that this is quite amusing. I have setup a web site http://www.windowschicken.com and I’m looking for input on what to put up there.
LOL! This is awesome!
You should make it into a page informing people about this translation issue and trying to convince people into calling Vista “windows chiken”. ;)
is a spanish word dont know why somebody liked to put that name maybe as are windos are for vista im watching a collins dictionary and has many translations for the same word , maybe that windows is just for appearance and no more, but microsoft is not the only, did u saw the mitsubishi pajero?
in some places of latin america pajero means wanker, can u use a car with that name?because this just in brazil has that name, and where spanish is not usually talked, lol
Coincidentally, vista also means vista in english, which happens to be the language of the location the software was primarily developed in.