Comments on: Mojave experiment gets a Web site

Microsoft has created a teaser site for its Mojave project, in which it showed Vista to XP users, pretending it was a new version of Windows to see if they liked it.

[frank bruce]

I have use Vista Pro, and home basic; both do what you need to do.
I don't like the fact that Vista has some compatibility issues with old hardware and software the same way the Mac OS has compatibility issues with old hardware and software.
The biggest problem with Vista was the bad press early in its development. The worse problem with Vista was that Microsoft did nothing to clear out what was happening at the press room; until now. Is it too late? As a Mac user at home I feel that Microsoft did a fine job with Vista SP1, and I feel that Apple should follow too when Snow Leopard is shipped.
-Frank

[filthymusic]

I use XP for work and set up a dual-boot for Vista on my home PC.
I have only booted to Vista a handful of times.. mainly due to initial hardware/software incompatabilities that were probably addressed around the time of SP1.
The initial problems did stop me from upgrading, but I may try again soon.. maybe before Windows 7 is out. Maybe this advertising offensive will work on me.. I hope so.

By the way i don't use OSX.. and never have found a use for it. I find the Apple hardware pretencious and expensive. I have loved seeing the mac clones coming along and think it would be a great move for Apple to open up the operating system to other vendors. When Apple have to support thousands of different pieces of hardware as Microsoft do, I am sure their bug list would be as big, if not larger than in Windows.

After all, what would you prefer? A monopoly on OS's (Microsoft) or a monopoly on hardware and software (mac)?.. I think competition in both areas would be great and may lead to both Apple and MS lowering prices and creating better quality, more versitile OS's.

[The_Decider]

"Maybe this advertising offensive will work on me.. I hope so."

Here is a basic rule of the universe: If advertising works on you then you are an idiot. You you hope that advertising works on you then you are a complete idiot.

How about hoping that MS fixing the thousands of problems in Vista instead of hoping that some ad convinces you it has?

A monopoly of hardware? Since when is using off the shelf parts a monopoly?

[Penguinisto]

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[Dalkorian]

Doesn't it say something that M$ has to trick people into making nice comments about fista?

[pfletcher]

yes - it says people like you with lame M$ obviously haven't a clue what you are talking about - when you rant on about memory footprints and lack of drivers and incompatibility - you simply don't understand that most people don't want to hook up their 20 year old dye sup printer - they don't want access some obscure latin database - they simply want internet, e-mail, some photo editing and play music and for that Vista is cool

[pfletcher]

yes - it says people like you with lame M$ obviously haven't a clue what you are talking about - when you rant on about memory footprints and lack of drivers and incompatibility - you simply don't understand that most people don't want to hook up their 20 year old dye sup printer - they don't want access some obscure latin database - they simply want internet, e-mail, some photo editing and play music and for that Vista is cool

[Lovs2look]

Ok Ok we get it!

[kwbarrett_jr]

For years and years I have used Windows mainly because for the development work I do, there was no Mac equivalent. That has since changed. I recently bought a 3 year old used Mac Powerbook (1.67GHz/2MB) with Leopard installed. I'm not ready to say that the OS is any better or faster than Windows. In all honesty, I've had both lock up or programs crash, etc. I don't see any huge difference in performance either. The speed is roughly the same. Where Mac seems to shine is overall ease of use. It's a more comfortable machine to use, the UI is simpler and looks great, and MUCH EASIER to set up. I was connected to my wireless network in about 30 secs. Coincidentally, I was setting my wife's PC laptop at the same time, and it wasn't even a close comparison. I still use a PC for work and even have a PC desktop at home, but I mainly use my Mac for my freelance development and even connect it to my home theater to watch iTunes movies.

I do not use Vista, at least not at home. I used it at an old job. I was wondering how long it would take MS to fight back at Apple. The characterizations made by Apple have been in my opinion grossly overstated. In fact, in my opinion, Vista and Leopard shared the same kind of early hiccups. The difference is Apple was much much quicker in fixing them. MS seems to have little interest in fixing anything. They'd rather put fixes in the next version to make you upgrade. You'd think they'd learn from their IE experience, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Does anyone still use IE?

[hankstergc]

Let a few folks who don't know VISTA come use my DELL for 5 minutes then they can form the same opinion everyone else has about VISTA. The marketeers have bent the performance and thus the results of the Mohave project...the people in the video are sure not using the same POS that is my operating system.

[Hephasteus]

Congratulations. The mojave experiement proves conclusively that microsoft can produce piles of crap force them on people. Fix them and then sell the whole damn thing again. Gee I wish GM would do this. Introducing the Yukon II. This ones transmission doesn't explode. Upgrade for only $30,000 dollars plus proof that you already purchased the Yukon I for $30,000 or else the price is $60,000. The Mojave experiment doesn't show anything that anyone outside of the bleeting sheep masses have known since windows 3.1 was RESOLD.

[BlogSpeak]

What we should really note is Micrsoft's attempt to promote their product by
scamming their customers. They don't have the ethics to understand this is fraud
and a crime...

[njnhnw]

What scares me is that Microsoft believes they can market Vista based on the fact that they were able to trick people into using it...... Lets face it folks if you are selling something that you have to fool people into using, then it's not a very good product. I tried vista, and still run it on a laptop although I don't use it for much more than a base to run my non-microsoft programs, I prefer linux. Vista was great for all of 10 minutes (oddly enough the amount of time the mojave experiment lasts for) but here's what they don't mention in their "Experiments"..... Most of the time when you get a "out of the box" computer doesn't have 2GB of ram. Start connecting your hardware and you spend the next six hours searching for drivers (which you won't find half the time). But that's not the biggest complaint I have about vista, I hate it because it's slow..... Are you a programmer who like to do a little qbasic.... Good like, vista's command prompt won't allow it...... Missed a windows update? Don't worry about it, vista will remind you when your internet connections stop working..... And lets not forget that everytime you load something you have to let vista no you did it intentionally...... I can only imagine what that would be like for a system administrator with 1000 computers to install, update, and configure. Microsoft is not pleasing me, xp is all I run on my non unix systems (I'd run mac but I'm too cheap right now) but I'm working on moving to a completely windows free universe.

[cuddles1943]

I have had a Windows Vista now for over 10 months. I will never buy a vista again. I have nothing but problems with it freezing up. If you double click on a single click box or if you are running several items in tray and you double click by accident on one it will freeze up. I am very disapointed in my Vista.

[Daniel Jaeger]

Ok, look at it this way.

First: Microsoft set this up. Microsoft bought the computers. Microsoft DID NOT install any other software. Also, a 2GHz processor is not old, is expensive, and 2GB of RAM is much more than required for XP.

Second: They're only letting them use the computer for 10 minutes. If they would let them use the computer for a few months, they'd be coming back to Microsoft with countless problems, incompatabilities, bluescreens, slow-downs, etc.

Third: Ask ANYONE who is NOT a Microsoft Windows Vista dealer what they think of it. That's when the truth comes out! The bottom line is Microsoft made a HUGE MISTAKE with Windows Vista, and the only thing they can do to make it look good is show people it's first 10 minutes. LAME! If Windows Vista was good, people who are not Windows Vista representatives would be telling you how good it is. As for Microsoft, TRASH VISTA, and go back to XP!

[Slik1956]

I have not been in the computer game for very long,but from the beginning,I never understood the purpose of the microsoft bashing that became glaringly obvious rather quickly.It seems to be the same arguements that you hear between GM and FORD fans,ie:my system is better than yours.Bla,Bla,Bla.Spend your money how you want,use the system that you want,and be happy that you have a system in the first place.Grow up, and quit arguing.!