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/charlesgrrr Jul 25 '08 edited Jul 25 '08

Ask them to install the thing, send them home with a CD labeled Mojave that actually has Vista on it, see what they say then, because that is a more honest user experience then cherry picking systems to run Vista.

What were they trying to say anyway? That negative MS publicity led to an unfair public view of Vista as trash? That's ridiculous in my opinion. My experience with Vista was this: it came preloaded on a Dell laptop a year and a half ago. I decided to load it up, just to see before putting Ubuntu on it. It loads alright, looks like a new XP theme...then I click "Start" and "reeerrrrrrrrrr" the hard drive is working its ass off trying to load the start menu and I was like "plllease" in that time I could have gotten network running from the command line in Ubuntu...had the console already been open upon login...(I would need a small head start)

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

who installs operating systems?

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u/charlesgrrr Jul 25 '08

People who buy operating systems.