Comments on: Microsoft looks to 'Mojave' to revive Vista's image

CNET News gets an exclusive look at what's likely to become a piece of a new Vista marketing push.

[soldierofthelam]

directed towards armond c peaslee jr post,
you are an idiot ms sucks for those of us who use os for more than looking at email all versions of vista sucks,its not compatable with half the hardware or software,its not fast at all!!!! ive been to two different stores to look at puters it does not load fast its slow and clunky its user interface is not friendly,thier windows is not an original design!!! oh yea who would of thought ms could steal ,,lol thats what they do steal and take credit for it,my os has been using that same theme for years under blinds!!!!windows vista load on a puter is too high for us gamers,even with 16 gigs of rams. vista sucks. i spend lots of money building my own systems and would buy a 300.oo dollar blue ray burner before a i would buy a 300.oo dollar vista os, when i build puters for other people they insist on wanted vista as an op,then i get calls back asking for xp or linex,its not about being sometihng new they dont like,,,,,its the retardness of vista, microsoft when you steal an ideal ,steal a good ideal, in the end a toilet is still just a toilet.

[soldierofthelam]

as far as driver issues its not nvidia fault ,ardvard,why should everyone else conform to ms vista, im running 3 different puters, one on which has a nivida 6600 gt,and ive played new material included masss effect and other new games with no hitch, if you were a true builder and programmer you would know this ardvard

[soldierofthelam]

to lay Mojave down for people who dont fully understand its Vista, supposely with driver fixed to run camera printer, hardware and software drivers theres nothing fancy about it other than they added Mojave to the name to get more attention back to buying vista op, But why did they go through third party members to complete driver compatablity for vista oh yea because ms took the credit for fixing issues with thier cheap crappy rippoff op, after stealing designs from members then throwing it out to the public!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and renaming it Mojave. to fill in the blanks for people who dont get Mojave, its vista nothing else with drivers added by third party people who took the time to go through vista ms op and fix the problems,loosly would say fix ms you suck

[rizorex]

Vista is a technician's nightmare! The only way I'll reinstall Vista on my PCs and my clients' PCs is that if Windows repackages Windows XP Pro, don't change anything except upgrade it with Vista's graphics capability and sell it under $80. Better yet give it away for free as an act of penance for the sin of releasing Vista in the first place. The moment I started browsing Vista I knew it was another Windows ME. I'm sure MS will come up with something great just like 2000 and XP were a rebound for ME but until then STOP FORCEFEEDING US WITH VISTA!!! PUT XP BACK ON ALL PCS!!!

[rizorex]

Actually I love Vista, in that it made me a lot of money downgrading from people who wanted to go back to XP. I can't tell you guys how much money I've made because Vista sucked so bad, in the last couple of years I've been busy downgrading laptops after laptops and PCs after PCs to Windows XP and some to Linux. I say keep Vista longer until I pay off my car.

[tudza]

My comic on the subject, let me show you it:

http://sites.google.com/site/tudzasplace/microsoft-s-mojave-os-test

[kakureru]

vista for me has been terrible, It came on my laptop and for such a nice laptop performed slower than my XP laptop with 1/2 the specs. Battery life was shorter, machine ran hotter, and everything took 40% more processing power than XP which made it worthless for anything i needed to do needing CPU horse power.

After finding out that Microsoft had a special licensing with the maker meant that as part of the deal the company was not to provide XP drivers for the hardware. Luckily i know how to find ones that work.
after the switch back to XP laptop was much more efficiently faster,cooler and lasts 1 more hour on battery.

Vista looks nice, really it is, but its severe resource hog.

Dont forget what the word "Vista" Means. It means to see the path but in the definition doesn't actually mean to also interact with it. Ie look but not touch. In the commercials, they are only "looking" :P

[EhCanadaftw]

Instead of spreading out my thought like the people above ^^ I Will say that vista wasn't rly a **** up it was merely rushed into the production line, and then people with a mac are like ' DER WE HAVEZ A PROGRAM FOR A YEAR YAR YAR - Does Fat Dance- So em Yea once this thing gets out, the retarded people with macs that thing vista had problems with installation, with clearly on my comp stats it as a 5.9 Rating.. Which is quite high.. The only thing was that Gamers Were getting pissed when say, You had Msn, Vent , Xfire, Or steam on while playing a game, and you couldnt play most the games fullscreen because of the command prompt's failure 2 accept the ping raisage, in this new version the program can take both business and Gamer Ideas and **** em up together like sex with teh red necks eh? anyways oh snap long message .. Eh Macs FTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[finkey1]

No "Wow" from me!
Vista can have a new name or a new tweak. Microsoft can blame Apple all they like. It doesn't change a thing.
Vista hogs, hides and wrests basic controls from the end user. I tried Vista and dislike it a lot. I won't accept it or any further clone or successor of it. It finally drove me to Linux. I'm now in a dual boot environment, in the process of phasing out Windows.

[theknightinhell]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pi7fkH2ZHQ

Check out my spoof on the Mojave experiment!

[SavannahNight]

Obviously, this is an ad for MS. Vista's bad. Real bad. And all the garbage afterward was just that: garbage. But seriously, is anybody really surprised? We've accepted nothing but garbage from MS since early on. They hooked us early and we've done nothing but accept sub-standard product ever since ...

[Radikll]

This is from a journal I wrote to my teacher:
"My mom has vista on her computer and it works fine but that's just the problem. It only works fine even though it should be 3 times better than my computer. It should work great! It should be the fastest computer in the house but it's not... In fact my mom's computer has a much better video card than mine, yet it plays games so slow I have to quit the game because it's SOO frustrating!"
This is what he wrote back:
"Windows is a piggy."

If you were wondering the Game was Spore and I played it on my computer and my brothers computer. My computer with 1.25 gb ram, 2.4 ghz p4 and his computer with 1gb ram and 2A ghz p4, and my mom's computer 3gb ram and 2ghz dual-core Turion 64 X2. Both my brother's computer and mine have nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 video cards while my mom's computer has a NVIDIA GeForce 7150M. Spore works on both my brother's computer and mine even though our video cards aren't on the mini requirments list for Spore. The graphics are exactly the same on my brother's computer, mine, and my mom's. The only difference is that on my mom's Vista computer Spore runs about half as fast even though all of the hardware is better. This leads me to beleive that the only "problem" with my mom's computer is Vista since it's the only thing that is slower.

Today I (after I watched yet another Mojave ad) decided to go to the website at the end of the ad. I was suprized to find out that I couldn't see the page. The reason being that I need MS SliverLight to display it. To run SliverLight you need Internet Explorer and to run Internet Explorer you need to run some version of Windows. So, MS's Mojave website isn't aimed at people using other Operating Systems like Mac or Linux, it's aimed at people who already use windows. MS wants to keep it's market. about 85% of computer user use Windows and the other 15% is Mac and Linux and FreeBSD and Solaris(about 5% mac and 5% Linux and 5% everything else). THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE A MONOPOLY!! Windows doesn't have to make a "better OS" it just has to make one good enough to keep everyone from switching!! Mac OS 10.X and Linux and FreeBSD and OpenSolaris and EVERYTHING ELSE might be 10 times better than Vista, but as long as the OS is just "ok" no one is going to switch! I have tried all of the OS's listed above and all of them are better or just as good as Vista.

I will never switch to Vista. In fact for hardcore Open source software supporters that can't live without windows there may soon be an alturnitive ReactOS http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html
An Open source version of Windows, but it's still in alpha. If you saved money not switching to Vista you might want to donate it to those guys.

ps
The GUI is the last thing to think about when switching to Vista. My brother installed a Vista skin to his XP computer. The only difference between his computer and my mom's is that his doesn't have the Window preview, Transparency, and dumb sercurity messages. You could also install a Windows shell replacement like: BB4Win, BB lean, or SharpE. I recommend SharpE it looks much better than Vista and It has multable desktops :D
http://www.sharpe-shell.org/e107_plugins/autogallery/Gallery/User%20Screenshots/Sync.png

[ManaDoll]

This Mojave cover is a load of bull. I Didn't even know I had vista and I was under the opinion that my computer was the worst of all the computers I've ever had except maybe the one I had in like 1993. Vista didn't get a bad reputation for being slow and spastic because it wears funny clothes and doesn't bathe, no it gets that rep because it straight up sucks. I have never gone a couple hours, let alone days with out my Vista piece of crap going unresponsive. Silly Windows, you don't get Bambie the stripper to change her ways by naming her Chastity, so don't think you can stop Vista from making people homicidal with rage after it decided t go unresponsive and wipe five pages of a research paper just by changing its name to Mojave.
Don't get me wrong, I do see some positives in Vista, like it made me appreciate my old Window's '95 may it RIP. It just makes me really angry that instead of fixing Vista, Windows is trying to fool peope into buying it with their cheap statistics. If Jimmy, my Vista, had turned out to be a Mojave, I would be raving about how much I hate that. Jimmy has caused so many problems in my life that I've developed a stress disorder, so please if any one is thinking about getting a vista and reads this....DON'T! For your sainity, for your life, do not get Vista.
I hate you Windows.

[EZ360]

Great Read Just thought about a guy wh can fixes issues http://www.karmasnack.com his names is Ad, he;s a genuis with Vista and other OS systems Vista makes XP look like hyper speed, using the same hardware. Spent $16,OOO kon a phone room running vista and almost had take iall 45 PC's back with in a month. He fixed all my programming issues. Vista is a joke, but there is alot than can be done if you know more about its full capabilities.

[garrett1007]

no i do not dig vista it was a huge money scam it has not lived up to what it is suposed to be bringing to the computer worlds tables, it slows down computers alot it has alot of unneed things running in background. do you honestly think you need it indexing every little thing at every second and keeping meida player running in background and slowing it down . i sue dont. if i want music i load it when i want it not when i boot. i also didint like the way they took the log in options out i cant change log in styles unless you go and buy the moest expensive vista. vista uses on a fresh boot a full gig of ram just to start up only to start people. it lags so bad that the sound cuts in and out on log in and i feel like im back on a old p2 hell id take my p2 over this. also the deception microsoft has used to promote this os was in my opinion wrong ya alot of people didnt want to give it hte chance but now that its been tested and all Microsoft realizes oh guess what guys you were right vista is crap. well just make win 7 itl be better. da ja vu i same thing was said with windows me the problem with me was if u had a viruse good luck getting rid of it because sys restore was always on no mater how it looked off. and vista has a stability issue that has been overseen to many times explorer stops responding way to much to be calld reliable. i just feel xp was the more stable system ok vista has all these cool things but what good are they when they slow ur machine so slow it cant run them properly?