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Old 22nd Jul 05, 01:00 PM
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Windows Vista / Windows View
Several sources have posted the new name of Windows Longhorn which might be Windows Vista. Activewin was the first one to report this story. Bink has done some research with whois and it came up with these results:

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The whois information for WindowsVista.com/net/org don't show anything revealing, but the windowsvista.us whois gives it away:

Domain Name WINDOWSVISTA.US
Domain ID D7534463-US
Sponsoring Registrar REGISTER.COM
Domain Status clientTransferProhibited
Registrant ID 9628572F23803919
Registrant Name Domain Administrator
Registrant Organization Microsoft Corporation
Registrant Address1 One Microsoft Way
Registrant City Redmond
Registrant State/Province WA
Registrant Postal Code 98052
Registrant Country United States
Registrant Country Code US
Registrant Phone Number +1.4258828080
Registrant Facsimile Number +1.4259367329
Registrant Email domains@microsoft.com
Registrant Application Purpose P1
Registrant Nexus Category C21

It also might be named into Windows View,
http://www.whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=windowsview.us is showing us that it is registered too by Microsoft.

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