Jul 31
Jul 31
Mojave - codenamed after the desert in the US - is the new operating system that Microsoft “tested” on some ordinary people who only had bad things to say about Vista. Almost all of them liked it a lot - wow, awesome, really cool, the speed is incredible - and were interested in using it.
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Jul 30
Jul 30
As the release of Windows Vista approached, the reports about how neat it was quickly turned to reports about how messed up it was, or still is: dropped features, poor performance, compatibility problems, crashes, you name it. Most of that was overblown. Certainly the computers that ran the five-year-old Windows XP couldn’t all be expected to run Vista well (even the much-heralded Mac OS bumps-up system requirements significantly over that span of time).
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Jul 29
Microsoft is mad as hell over the industry’s negative view of Vista, and the software giant isn’t going to take it anymore. In the latest sign of Microsoft’s growing frustration with Vista critics, Chris Flores, a director with the Windows Client communications team, hotly disputed a recent Forrester report that claims Vista just isn’t making much headway with business users, characterizing Forrester’s findings as “schizophrenic.”
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Ok, so the ‘wow’ didn’t exactly happen in quite the way Microsoft hoped but are we all being a little too harsh on Windows Vista? Microsoft certainly thinks so. It’s set out to prove that, if we just gave Vista a chance, we’d all be ditching XP and Windows 2000 quicker than you can say ‘blue screen of death’.
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