Couple name their new baby after a computer operating system

[IChing]

Her name came as a discussion about what her name should be, as they always do. At first we didn't know what sex the baby was going to be so we started with a boys name. We rummaged around the Internet, baby name books, and our brains finally to arrive at Dev. Yeah, geek origins but it had meaning to us. Dev (as in short for Developer) sounded like a good boys name; had it's origins in Sanskrit, it was unique and interesting and we liked the sound of it. Then came the process of finding a good middle name and again after some time, we liked Orion (as in the constellation).

We stared at the piece of paper with his name written out:

Dev
Orion
Simser

DOS

There it was, plain as day. Our son's initials would be DOS. We laughed and laughed and then came the afterthought. Well, if our son's initials are DOS, a daughter would have be an upgrade. And thus the name Vista was born.

Vista (the operating system) hadn't been released yet, but we looked at it on paper. Vista. I liked the sound of it.
Vista Avalon Simser was born May 18th at 18:10 MST, weighing in at 5 pounds and 11 ounces

Link:

http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2007/06/02/introducing-the-new-vista-ipod.aspx


The guy works for microsoft.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. At least they didn't call him Longhorn!

[amitten]

2. ...

:scared:

[EFerrari]

3. It could be worse. He could work for Maytag.

lol

[ret5hd]

4. Or Trojan condoms, or Kotex

[baldguy]

5. or...

[originalpckelly]

6. AHAHAHA!

:rofl:
:spank:

[phaseolus]

7. silly, but I've heard of sillier

back when fametracker.com had a message forum with a snarky topic devoted to the stupid names that some celebrities gave their children, someone posted a link to a hospital-run birth announcement webpage. One of the couples had named their new daughter "Dasani Evian"...

[Deja Q]

9. Okay, that's it. I'm naming my son to Dastari Dalek in abject protest of this lunacy.

or if it's a daughter:

Servalan Avon (the latter is actually a male's name, but in America it's the brand name of cheap cosmetics)

:eyes:

[Deja Q]

8. That's really sad. Worse,

will they pay Microsoft for using their trademark? :rofl:

Anybody else remember when IBM was sued by Paramount for using the name "Warp" in "OS/2 Warp 3" (1994)? :spray: