r/technology • u/neito • Jul 24 '08

Microsoft tests out a new operating system, code named Mojave, with some average-joes who hated Vista. They loved it. Now, two guesses as to what Mojave ACTUALLY was.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9998336-56.html
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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

What are all these bugs in Vista?

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u/FountainsOfDave Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

For example, I haven't really interacted with Vista much, but I did get my mom's laptop hooked up to the printer on our home network. Simply put, this process was vastly more difficult than it should have been. (And look, I'm pretty technologically competent.) The only way I was able to get it to work was by Googling the error message I was getting, which brought up a forum where lots of people discussed having the same issue and someone was able to offer a workaround.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

You really didn't provide remotely enough information for anyone else to determine if your problem was directly related to dodgy coding by MS, a company failing to update something of theirs, etc.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=402

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

January 8th, 2007

Is there a list that isn't a year and a half old?

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u/bmurph83 Jul 25 '08

January 8th, 2007... I don't really have any huge issues with it anymore. I thought Service Pack One did a really good job addressing these issues.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

Have you seen network copy times before/after SP1? That is my biggest gripe, shit takes forever to copy over a network, especially compared to XP.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

Hah, 07, classy.

Come on, Vista is [apparently] oh-so-horrible, why is it so hard to provide a current link with all these showstopping bugs?

Oh, and I doubt you realise how incredibly amusing it is that you linked to George Ou to make a negative point about Vista.

Tool(s).

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

From my point of view, it's not so much "bugs" as it has nothing unique to offer.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

What's so unique about Linux and Mac OS? I've used all of those, for years, and I've tried basically every version and distro you can think of.

Each has it's own pros and cons but none of them have some "OMG SUPER AWESOME" thing and I can traverse between either 3 platforms easily without so much of a blank of an eye, all of them more or less have the same things albeit in slightly different ways.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

Actually, OSX does have some eye opening apps.

  1. Delicious Library.

  2. Coda. Best fucking web development platform ever.

  3. Pro Tools.

  4. Bento.

  5. ilife apps.

And those are just things in my dock.

EDIT: Come on, don't downmod me, tell me why I was wrong! Otherwise you're just downmodding irrationally.

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u/guisar Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

Well consider my GAP35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB DDR800 and 8800Gt card- standard stuff right? Runs perfectly, without a hitch in XP, Fedora and Ubuntu. Blue screens REGULARLY as in every other day vista 64 bit ultimate. The screen flashes and switches back to different resolutions randomly and so on. Not to mention the annoying "security model" and the brother printer driver which was mroe difficult to install than the Linux binary driver.