On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 4:55 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 8/6/2024 2:31 PM, maddox--- via cctalk wrote:
> > On 01.08.2024 16:28, Royce Taft via cctalk wrote:
> >> Wasn’t Vista “Mojave”?
> >
> > As others noted, "Mojave" was the name of a MacOS release.  There was,
> > however, an ad campaign that Microsoft ran in an attempt to counter the
> > bad press that Windows Vista was getting at the time of its launch.  In
> > it, they showed folks who had been invited to try out a new future
> > version of Windows in development called "Windows Mojave".  After they
> > had seen a demo and made positive comments about it, it was then
> > revealed that "Windows Mojave" was actually Vista.
> >
>
> I keep seeing all these bad comments about Vista.  Just what was
> supposed to be wrong with it?  I ran it for more than a decade
> and only stopped when MS deliberately broke it with the final
> update.  It was a hell of a lot better than the crap that followed
> it.
>
> bill
>

As others said; it was slower, bloated -Windows 7 felt like a vast
improvement performance wise.

That said, if you had it on a new (at the time) computer with appropriate
drivers it was a pretty alright OS. In my opinion I like the look of it
better than I liked 7 -even though I ran 7 for a lot longer.

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