More Vista Baby Naming Fallout

I have over 100 links to other blogs, news sites, and rumblings (including Windows Vista magazine and The Guardian) over the naming of our daughter last month. I'll probably post a follow-up with links to them, as some of them are quite humorous.

However this one jumped out at me this morning:

This time, it’s allegedly a Vice President of Microsoft, Bil Simser, who has charted new baby naming territory. According to a post in the Windows Vista Magazine, Simser’s new daughter is named Vista Avalon.

Vice President huh? Well it's *got* to be true, it's on the Internet. What a promotion from MVP, and I don't even work for the company! Gotta love the media. As my first executive decision, I hereby declare .NET, SharePoint, and Visual Studio open source! Now should I should send a note to billg@microsoft.com asking for my parking pass and key to the executive squash courts.

Update: It's been noted that Vista wasn't listed on Wikipedia's page for unusual names. No longer. I updated it with her name and a link to her blog entry. She's the first entry for the letter "V".

5 Comments

  • I originally thought that post was a joke. I didn't realize you *ACTUALLY* named your kid Vista. And I thought my Vista license plate was geeky ;). You do realize when she finds out how she got her name, she's gonna hate you, right?

  • congratulations!

    not sure if they play squash at Redmond but if you are looking for a bout of squash, look me up!

  • Heh... grats, Bil on the promotion! You should be keeping all of these memos and media clips... as Robert said, she may not totally appreciate her namesake, but she may get a kick out of the fact she was world-renouned at such a young age--and got her Dad a nice raise. ^^/

  • "I don't think a Microsoft V.P. can't find a decent hosting company". This is the best thing to start off a Monday morning. It sounds like this person is angry at Microsoft and doesn't know anything about the company. I think you chose a great name. You could have named your kid Blanket or Apple.

  • I know I'm lat to the show but I want to say I love the name. You picked it special for her and she'll love you for it. It's no different from a friend of mine whose last name was Smith and were Dallas Cowboy fans - Named their son Dallas Emmitt Smith. :-?

    Your daughter will become who you raise her to be - not what her name is. Awesome stuff! God Bless.

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