It appears that Microsoft is naming its successor to Windows Vista “Fiji”, having previously dubbed it “Vienna”.

So before we’ve even got our eager hands on Windows Vista we’re being jollied up for the next one. We’ll probably need anti-ageing treatment to see us into the 22nd century. Monkey glands, anyone?

Shakespeare wrote: “A rose by any other name is still a rose?” We have evidence to doubt the bard’s wisdom, though. The rose named Vista is still receding over the horizon at a rate of knots. It may have been just a mirage, after all.

Gizmodo comments: “Of course, by the time these products reach the real world marketplace, if ever, they will probably have some other vaguely aesthetic-sounding name. But until then, we’ll call it Fiji. Our bets are on an operating system that’s not even shrink-wrapped, but web-based, certainly by the time we get to Vienna.”

Why not call it “The Hanging Gardens of Babylon” and we’ll recognize it for what it is: a pleasant dream.