Vista

Vista usually refers to a distant view. It may also refer to:

Software

• Windows Vista, an operating system released by Microsoft in 2007
• Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, VistA is the system used by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and many others worldwide, to manage electronic medical records and serve other medical informatics functions. It and its derivatives constitute one of the most widely used electronic health records (EHR / EMR) platforms in the world.
• WebCT Vista, Enterpise Learning Management System from the company "Blackboard". It is used in the Higher Education domain as an application for teaching and learning.
• Vista and VistaPro, Amiga 3D landscape generation software.
• ViSta, a data visualization software, developped since 1991
• AltaVista, search engine

Organizations and institutions

• Mountain Vista High School, a high school in Douglas County, Colorado.
• Vista Community College, now Berkeley City College, a community college in Berkeley, California, USA
• Vista University, a university located in South Africa
• Volunteers in Service to America
• Ventura Intercity Service Transit Authority, a public transportation agency in Ventura County, California, USA

Places

• Vista, California, USA
• Vista, South Australia, Australia
• Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil
• Vista Hundred, Sweden
• Chula Vista, California, USA
• La Vista, Nebraska, USA
• Mount Vista, Washington, USA
• Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA
• Vista, Missouri, USA
• Vista, New Mexico, USA
• Vista, New York, USA
• Vista, North Carolina, USA
• Vista, Texas, USA
• Vista, Utah, USA
• Vista, Washington, USA
• Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA
• Vista Center, New Jersey, USA
• Vista West, Wyoming, USA

Persons

• Natalia Boa Vista, one of fictional characters in CSI: Miami.

Vehicles

• Thomas Vista, a school bus produced by Thomas Built Buses until 1998
• Toyota Vista, a passenger car produced by Toyota until 2003
• Vista Cruiser, a station wagon produced by Oldsmobile until 1977
• Dodge / Plymouth Colt Vista, a compact MPV licensed from Mitsubishi.
• F-16 VISTA, a variant of the Lockheed-Martin F-16 fighter aircraft range with thrust vector control (TVC).

Miscellaneous

• Vista Federal Credit Union, a credit union that serves employees of The Walt Disney Company
• Vista (Middle-earth), from the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, is a part of the atmosphere that surrounds the world of Arda
• VISTA (telescope), Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy
• VistaVision, a 35mm motion picture film format.
• VISTA (economics), Vietnam, Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey, Argentina. Considered to be the next group of emerging markets after BRICs.