Microsoft looks to 'Mojave' to revive Vista's image

"Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a "new" operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that "Mojave" was actually Windows Vista.

..of that perception, Microsoft belatedly acknowledges, stems from Apple's successful and unchallenged anti-Vista campaign. But, after stewing over the ads on many of his morning runs, Veghte decided that it was time to strike back, even without a new version of Windows to tout. Apple, he said, has "crossed a line" from fact into fiction." writes cnet.com

[incogneato]

hope they think of something good cuz apples commercials and vistas bad first impression will be tough to get out of peoples minds

and i like vista so i hope they accomplish it. only noobs bash it. its come a longgg way since release

[Ricdog]

Especially since its harder to play PC games on it, XP still king!!!!!!!!

[incogneato]

yea it sure is harder using the same exact installer on Vista that would pop up with XP!!!

see what i mean about only noobs bashing Vista :)

[co_ray]

i've been using vista and I've had no problems with it, runs smooth, better than xp in my opinion.

[Fadixon]

i left windows and went linux a long time ago :D Ubuntu FTW!! but dam i really wanna see how microsoft will go against apple this is gonna be a WAR :D

[xplosneer]

Yeah I use Madriva myself, got it Dual Booting, but I use vista cause it has my music in it(iTunes darn it). I'm trying to use Amazon tho so I'll be able to switch eventually.

But yeah I'm disappointed that Vista will only last 3 years. I feel like Windows 7 should be a free upgrade not another $150 OS.

[treacherous_gamer]

I think it's a perception problem that people have. Sure Vista is slower in performance than XP, but I like Vista over XP in many ways, if you leave out the annoying UAC popups, yadda yadda. Still, I'm satisfied with Vista, mainly because the performance hit isn't that big on my top of the line rig.

[incogneato]

actually Vista is way faster than XP you just need good hardware. if you have old hardware it will be slower than XP on that hardware. but if you have new hardware it will be WAY faster than XP on that same hardware

you can also turn off UAC

[N4g_null]

Yeap vista is way better than xp from what I've used and I hate MS.

[Bolts]

I just built a badass gaming PC for a mere $1094, it runs Vista Aero and all fancy graphics without any problems and as an added bonus it can run Gears of War and CoD 4 at full 1080p at well over 120 FPS LMAO!!

[Prismo_Fillusion]

Exactly! If you don't have a crappy computer, Vista works fine. I have a newish $1300 laptop running Vista and I can only remember one hiccup in 4+ months of having it.

[zapass]

these XP users were sooooo dumb they didn't see it was vista: "woooooooohoooooo you haters have been punked and now you tell everyone you LUV vista"

m$ is sucha buncha kunts!
they really think they can get away with anything.

now we know where some of those $300M went: in CNET's pocket for a nice coksucking blog job

http://gizmodo.com/5023063/...

[BushidoUK]

I recently changed to a mac rather than upgrade yet another outdated pc.
I loved XP, but hated vista, I just couldnt get vista to work as easily as XP
Ive never been a fan of apple (refusing to ever buy an ipod) but I have to say, using my computer has never been so easy since turning to the dark side.
Mac OS has brought back the fun into my computing, reminding me of using my old Amiga.

Given a choice, I wouldnt even take XP over MacOS....
I still run a small XP partition on my mac for the odd program and it now grates on me how clunky it is.

[zapass]

got a macbook pro after years of PC.
OSX is lean and mean, makes vista look like a dumb ass Hummer :P
command+tab to linux or XP via Parallels: very cool
occasional PC game under XP via bootcamp (but honestly, not that much anymore)
PS3 for the real action on a big screen

and if you add the iphone into the mix, it's not even the same league.
why do people get stuck on m$ crapware when there is so much better??

bubbles++;

[SaiyanFury]

I can't speak for other peoples' experience with Vista, but all I know is I've had a world of headaches with it to the point where I threw up my hands and bought a new copy of XP and installed it. This 'Mojave' rebranding is nothing more than that: a rebranding. You can take some junk, pack it in a new box, have some fancy graphics on the box. You can then rename it whatever you like. In the end, junk is junk. As for my experience with Vista, it's still junk. I completely understand that Vista works for some people, and more power to them. As for my own personal experience, Vista is junk and I'll stick with XP until Windows 7 proves to be worth an upgrade.

[Madbrain]

it will always be a turd

[cpuchess]

I just bought a HP Blackbird 002 with Vista-64\4GB Ram and it's awesome. I had never used Vista before and it's the little things I like about it. Like how it indexes your files so when you search for one it finds it immediately, etc etc.

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

I don't know why people have this thing against Vista. From what I can tell, they brought a slew of new improvements and introduced some bad ones. Just like the previous release Windows XP, everybody hated it and swore they would stick with win2k.

History repeates itself....

[N4g_null]

I got it idling at around 150 megs with nothing running! I'm sure it has it's head aches but all OSs do. With ram price falling it going to become a none issue. Hell it's almost your only option to run 64bit windows and get the most out of 8 gigs of ram.

If you are working in the industry and you don't have it while z brushing or other things then your are shooting your self in the foot.