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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

A baby called Vista, in an iPod shirt

From our better late than never dept: "Vista Avalon Simser was born May 18th," writes Bill Simser, so she has the first name of an operating system, while the middle name was the code name for Windows Presentation Foundation. She represents an advance on a previous child, DOS (Dev Orion Simser).

Bill doesn't work for Microsoft, though he does work with Microsoft products.



Okay, first I know that most of you are reading this on the bus, at home, at work, and you're laughing. 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.



There's a photoset on Flickr.

For inexplicable reasons, Vista has yet to make Wikipedia's List of unusual personal names.

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