Posted By: earnshaw | Aug 3rd, 2008 @ 11:18 AM
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earnshaw
earnshaw
Jack Sleeps
"I Had No Idea You Could Do That With Windows Vista" Precisely...  This is a customer comment from the Mojave experiment.  Only after  Apple puts on a series of commercials poking fun at Vista does Microsoft set out to demonstrate Vista's new features and advantages.  The initial effort in that direction was to sell the thing and let users sink or swim.   Of course, Vista works pretty good.  You only have to go out and buy a new computer if you want it to perform.  And "certified able to run Vista" computers were sold despite the fact that Vista wouldn't run well on said computers.  The user interface is something software designers pay not enough attention to, especially when they devise to rearrange an environment that has become familiary to 10s of millions of end users. Designers deign not to produce a map so that users who are used to doing something one way don't have to spend hours discovering how it is done now.  And my copy of Vista for 64-bit computers does occasionally lock up.
stevo_
stevo_
Human after all
I think given that office had the same problem.. the right people are tasked for 7..
The "Windows Vista Capable" program played a huge role in the negative perception of Windows Vista.  Any software will run like crap if you don't give it an adequate amount of resources to run in.
W3bbo
W3bbo
The Master of Baiters
I know, but why are Vista's requirements for a good experience higher than that of the latest Ubuntu distribution... and that has CompizFusion too.
wisemx
wisemx
Live it
How about watching the Olympics from Vista Media Center? Big Smile
http://www.tvtonic.com/olympics/install/downloading.php

Good guestion. Also why are Ubuntu's requirements for a good experience higher than that of Windows '95,despite being marginally less useful?

Cyonix
Cyonix
Me
is it true that it doesn't work in Vista x64?
wisemx
wisemx
Live it
Dunno, my Vista is 32bit.
Open Media Center, click on on-line media, you should see Olympics.
Lloyd_Humph
Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.
I wonder if you can get those Windows Mojave boxes. I imaging they'd become quite collectible, considering their rarity. Though perhaps not for much longer - "there will be more"...
Minh
Minh
WOOH! WOOH!
I had no idea you can only watch the Olympics on Vista.

Do you think NBC pays MS for distributing events over the net, or MS pays NBC for making the Olympics Vista / Silverlight only?
Yep I got an error when installing "TV Tonic does not support a 64-bit OS."

Decisions like this make no sense to me.  Why alienate potential customers?
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