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


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Well for now Im sticking with XP pro 64 as it handles memory better, and when I do get Vista I will duel boot and use XP for my 3d programs since the OS is taking up less memory. Yes Ill admit I rather not pick vista but SP1 reloaded the kernal. Basicly it was a new OS. When the first major upgrade was a rewrite of the OS I think Ill wait. Not to mention drop in quality. I belive it went from 1 error in 100k lines of code to 1 error in 10k lines of code.

Well for now Im sticking with XP pro 64 as it handles memory better, and when I do get Vista I will duel boot and use XP for my 3d programs since the OS is taking up less memory.

Vista uses the majority of memory as a cache for other applications, it's not actually taking it for itself. Unused memory is wasted memory.

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While I like Vista and agree most of the negativity comes from people who haven't even used it those "interview" videos all seem a little staged.

Well for now Im sticking with XP pro 64 as it handles memory better, and when I do get Vista I will duel boot and use XP for my 3d programs since the OS is taking up less memory. Yes Ill admit I rather not pick vista but SP1 reloaded the kernal. Basicly it was a new OS. When the first major upgrade was a rewrite of the OS I think Ill wait. Not to mention drop in quality. I belive it went from 1 error in 100k lines of code to 1 error in 10k lines of code.

That kind of statistic is completely useless since there is no way to quantitatively determine how many actual errors are in the Windows codebase.

Also, if anything, Vista's memory management is better. Superfetch any?

i love this, its so funny when people give it so many compliments when they don't know what it is.

Well for now Im sticking with XP pro 64 as it handles memory better, and when I do get Vista I will duel boot and use XP for my 3d programs since the OS is taking up less memory. Yes Ill admit I rather not pick vista but SP1 reloaded the kernal. Basicly it was a new OS. When the first major upgrade was a rewrite of the OS I think Ill wait. Not to mention drop in quality. I belive it went from 1 error in 100k lines of code to 1 error in 10k lines of code.

what does errors in the code even mean? i mean the OS works so these "errors" can't be that bad.

and since when did a new kernel mean it was a new OS? if only it were that easy.

Well for now Im sticking with XP pro 64 as it handles memory better, and when I do get Vista I will duel boot and use XP for my 3d programs since the OS is taking up less memory. Yes Ill admit I rather not pick vista but SP1 reloaded the kernal. Basicly it was a new OS. When the first major upgrade was a rewrite of the OS I think Ill wait. Not to mention drop in quality. I belive it went from 1 error in 100k lines of code to 1 error in 10k lines of code.

Lol Vista X64 is faster and more secure than XP X64. Also that XP X64 is actually Server 2003.

Well for now Im sticking with XP pro 64 as it handles memory better, and when I do get Vista I will duel boot and use XP for my 3d programs since the OS is taking up less memory. Yes Ill admit I rather not pick vista but SP1 reloaded the kernal. Basicly it was a new OS. When the first major upgrade was a rewrite of the OS I think Ill wait. Not to mention drop in quality. I belive it went from 1 error in 100k lines of code to 1 error in 10k lines of code.

Having demonstrated that you really have no idea what you're talking about, I think you'll be really impressed with Mojave. It has all the features you're after and more, so forget about Vista, just try Mojave and see what you think of it... other people with your level of expertise have been very impressed with it apparently ;)

you know what would be the real kicker with that campaign? if they got all those people that LIKED Mojave, then gave them Vista to work with for real and THEN asked them to come back. then we'd see how good Vista really is...

Lol Vista X64 is faster and more secure than XP X64. Also that XP X64 is actually Server 2003.

Not to mention more compatable. I went from XP x64 to Vista x64 on this computer and I was surprised at how all of the programs that I used to have issues with under XP x64 ran with no issues under Vista x64 (minus ones that needed x64 device drivers of course.)

So it should run better with 1GB than XP? :alien:

That's like asking if XP will run faster than Windows 98 with 64MB of memory. So throw that garbage out the window...

And I love how they changed the slogan for Vista. "See for youself. Decide for yourself."

Lovin it (Y)

That's like asking if XP will run faster than Windows 98 with 64MB of memory. So throw that garbage out the window...

BS. With more efficient usage of memory it should run better, unless it's designed to run worse.

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BS. With more efficient usage of memory it should run better, unless it's designed to run worse.

It's doing a whole lot more, it has more functionality then XP you nonce. Just like XP had more functionality than 98. Of course then I bet you'll say XP does everything you want. Which is what the DOS users used to say when Windows came along, and what Windows 3.11 users said when Windows 95 came along, and so on and so forth.

Mojave proved the point that stupid people carry stupid perceptions they got from other equally stupid people. Or to put it anothe way, you can lead an Apple user to water, but you can't make him drink it unless you charge him $200 and call it iWater :)

To me this says a lot about society, not just the Vista bashers, but a lot of others as well. I love the idea though.

I wonder if they have pictures of the people's faces when they're told they just used Vista...

Hello Simsie,

My name is Lindsey and I work with the Windows Vista team. I would be happy to share our customer videos. They can be found at www.MojaveExperiment.com.

Thank you

Lindsey

Hello Impact,

My name is Lindsey and I work with the Windows Vista team. I would be happy to share the customer videos. They can be found at www.MojaveExperiment.com.

Thank you

Lindsey

BS. With more efficient usage of memory it should run better, unless it's designed to run worse.

You just made a new slogan for yourself.

Your assumptions, your failure

Hello Simsie,

My name is Lindsey and I work with the Windows Vista team. I would be happy to share our customer videos. They can be found at www.MojaveExperiment.com.

Thank you

Lindsey

Hello Impact,

My name is Lindsey and I work with the Windows Vista team. I would be happy to share the customer videos. They can be found at www.MojaveExperiment.com.

Thank you

Lindsey

SPAMBOT!!! :pinch:

:p

This marketing scheme was interesting, and a good idea, but a bit late for me because on my laptop, I switched back to XP two nights ago after my second trial of Vista, and believe me I've given Vista good chances using the OS for 2-3 months each trial, but I just see much better gaming performance on XP still. (In some cases the difference can be as much as 40 FPS.) I will most likely be taking it off my desktop computer as well since once in a while it gives me blue screen errors for my video driver, no matter what driver I've tried...

I do look forward to Windows 7 with somewhat high hopes though. It's not sounding as grand as when initial ideas were given, but it could turn out good.

User panel : " OMG this is better than Vista !!!1!"

M$ dude : " PWned !!1! This IS Vista !!1!"

:)

haha, just what I was thinking :p

Yeah, I sell computers at Future Shop (Best Buy), and people are always complaining about Vista but literally around 1-2% of people have actually used it.

I've sold hundreds of computers in the last 2 years there, and maybe 3 to 4 people have returned their computer because they didn't like Vista.

Most people I ask actually like it after they've used it.

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