Sunday, July 27th 2008
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Microsoft's 'new' OS Gets a Website
Last week, Microsoft conducted an experiment in San Francisco, USA where 120 users with a negative opinion on Windows Vista were introduced to a new OS to which a majority of them gave positive feedback, only to discover it was Windows Vista under the covers (covered here). Microsoft now wants to publish its results in a new website presumably with promotional tones over its so-far-flop Windows Vista operating system. Results come out in the form of videos, text and presentations. The website titled "The Mojave Experiment" can be reached here.
Source:
CNET
146 Comments on Microsoft's 'new' OS Gets a Website
wireless setup is also massively improved for the most part.
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How Windows Vista should have ran when it was released.
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This is funny, this is like a developer that releases a hyped game, and it turns out to a be a bloated and buggy game, and then patches it to run the way it should have when released, a year later...And at that point tells journalists to come review their game again. However, what journalist in their right mind would go back and review a product a year later? They will not do this. So...Trick them, tell them it's a new os, then release to the public it was the same product. Great.
Marketing campaign on the horizon I suppose.
EDIT: Made improvements to more accurately portray what I was trying to write.
And how clueless do you have to be to not know you're using Vista? Where these people drugged?
i mean sure, some people have tried it and still hate it - but they arent these people.
www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/sitelets/solutions/software/business/xp_smb?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&~tab=2
The same problem is at companies who have hundreds or thousands of pcs;they won't change os even if MS give them for free so xp will die slowly with the hardware who has run it.
"Mojave experiment" MS has wake-up but too late this won't increase the selling of Vista till XP is still official supported by them;a failure because they show only 120 user instead of 120000...
I tried vista for a few minutes(don't know if it was basic,premium etc) but I found the networking options were more hidden than xp. I couldn't set the internet on that(I was asked to setup internet) but from the few minutes I used it was ok but I think it was the basic version without aero.
In XP you had to right click network and hit properties to get the extra menus (hidden to most users) in vista you double click, and the old 'hidden' options are all listed on the left hand side.
As for the lack of the "long format" option, Vista automatically checks the drive when you start the install. Once you get to the format option, the bad sectors are already mapped out.
And nobody has managed to get around that "annoying security pop-up" by any other means than social engineering. No auto installing malware has gotten around it yet.
You are, unfortunately, just another misinformed Vista hater.
In any case I'll be "trying" vista ultimate.
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My main reason for moving to VISTA was the above security strategy and the enhanced OS kernal. Initially, I did wait until SP-1 for my desktop because my laptop's early VISTA version showed there were still growing pains for this OS.
So there is a choice for doing the long format when installing Vista? Where? I didn't see one.
And there ISN'T an anoying security "feature" that asks you if you wanted whatever program to run every time you do something? Strange cause it sure appeared for me whenever I tried to run something. Yeah sure it can be disabled through a funky program like TweakUI, which is fine for you and me. How many average users know about TweakUI?
I have used Vista for 4 months before going back to XP. I tried hard to like it. I consider myself advanced with computers and can fix almost any problem I have. My experience is 15+ years.
Problems with Vista including SP1 32 or 64 bit
- not all 32-bit programs are compatible.
- the sound control scheme causes hardware / software conflicts
- it doesn't network well with Microsoft XP Home Edition or Win98 (some people care)
- The games folder does not work with all games
- It still runs 3D applications 10% slower on the same hardware than Windows XP
- not enough programs utilize the increased amount of available ram
- Too few games or applications REQUIRE Vista and / or DX 10
- Most of the new features can be downloaded for free, legally, onto Windows XP
What Vista offers to me that is good
- User account control
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That is the only thing that I liked about Vista. However, it's not enough for me to change.
Here was my last response to you maybe you missed it. www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=903957&postcount=70
-you do not limit yourself to the topic in which you decide to debate about
-you do not understand what it is you are responding to
-you ignore the subject(s) in which you decide to debate about.
At this point it becomes arguing, check yourself.