Do it Yourself Mojave
Yup. I’m now a Vista user. As I mentioned in a previous post, circumstances have recently required that I buy a new desktop PC.
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12.8.2008 Windows Codenamed Mojave Closer to Vista SP1 than Even Windows 7
Windows codenamed Mojave is just around the corner and closer to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 than even Windows 7. The Reason for this is that Windows 7 is merely an evolution of the latest Windows client, while Windows codenamed Mojave is actually 100% Vista.
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28.7.2008 The Mojave Experiment - now with Silverlight!
Many of you might have heard of the Mojave Experiment, and some of you might have snickered at that site's use of another rich client technology. :)
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4.9.2008 Mojave Goes Prime Time
OMG. I saw a "Mojave Experiment" TV commercial on Scifi HD last night.
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15.9.2008 How To Make a Custom Vista Disc AIO
odeeee report How To
Make a Custom Vista Disc All In One in our forum.
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26.1.2007 ReadyBoost in Windows Vista: Does it Make a Difference?
USB memory keys are compact little devices that can store and transfer anywhere from 128MB to 8GB of data, all it takes is a USB slot.
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27.8.2007 Users may need Vista to make most of Server 2008
Companies installing Windows Server 2008 may have to buy extra Microsoft software, such as Windows Vista, to use more advanced features, analyst firm Gartner has said.
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3.11.2007 Last OS Standing: Make the Most of Windows Vista
Now that Windows XP is no longer being sold by Microsoft, PC users will be stuck with Windows Vista. Here's a roundup of PC World's best tips for making Vista easier to use.
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3.7.2008 Windows Codename Mojave Is Live
Microsoft is mid-way on the road from Windows Vista to Windows 7, the next iteration of its Windows client, planned for availability no later than the end of January 2010.
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29.7.2008 What if Apple had conducted the Mojave Experiment?
In watching the many negative blog posts and comments about Microsoft’s “Mojave Experiment” — designed to try to distinguish perception from reality around Vista — I can’t help but wonder how different the take would be if it were Apple doing the same kind of marketing campaign.
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30.7.2008 MS Vista to make official debut in Israel
Microsoft Windows team development head Steven Sinofsky will unveil Vista at Tech-Ed Israel 2006. windows -
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4.4.2006 NSA Helped Microsoft Make Vista Secure
Microsoft has confirmed that the U.S. government agency best known for eavesdropping on telephone calls had a hand in the development of the Windows Vista operating system.
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12.1.2007 Microsoft looks to Mojave to revive Vistas image
After months of searching for ways to defend its oft-maligned Windows operating system, Microsoft may just have found its best weapon: Vista's skeptics.
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25.7.2008 Windows Codename Mojave vs. Old Windows Vista
Microsoft has thrown the old Windows Vista in the same arena of public perception as a "new Windows operating system codenamed Mojave."
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30.7.2008 Windows 7 – 20 Features to Make Users Forget Vista SP1/SP2 and XP SP3
Microsoft is currently moving onward with the development of Windows 7, having passed Milestone 3 with the operating system.
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15.11.2008 Do not make Win 7 too Mac-like
Blogger Paul Thurrott has written a couple of interesting posts about the difference between “simple” and “easy” in the context of Windows 7.
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4.12.2008 Why Apple does not make a netbook
As netbooks continue their inexorable rise up the wish lists of gadget hounds, businesses and ordinary folk alike, the clamor for Apple to join the market continues to increase from all sides.
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5.3.2009 Is Google going to make Microsoft look good?
Why do we like Google? Is it because they are the “do no evil” company? Is it because they are not Microsoft? Is it because they make our lives easier through their search, email, and other services? The fact of the matter is that a lot of people from users, to developers, to workers, and to investors like Google. Heck, even I like google! (Look at the ads.)
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3.8.2006 Microsoft Blogs Make Room for Ads
Microsoft's MSN Spaces blogging features are set for a major upgrade to incorporate a revenue-sharing advertising option and a new partnership with Amazon.com, according to various sources.
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26.1.2006 Hollywood to make shows for Xbox 360
Microsoft, seeking to expand offerings on its Xbox 360 console, has reached an agreement with a company headed by Peter Safran, the veteran Hollywood producer and talent manager, to produce original shows for distribution on the system.
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31.3.2008 Microsoft to eventually make Office a web application
Microsoft is leaping into hosted applications big time. InformationWeek reports that Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM and ERP applications. But the best quote in that article was left till last. A "Microsoft insider" was asked which other products and services Microsoft would host and the reply was: "Everything. Hosted Office. Everything hosted."
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Microsoft: Make our HD Photo format a standard
Such is the reasoning behind a step Microsoft plans to announce Thursday: it will submit its HD Photo image format to a standards body.
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8.3.2007 Microsoft Gambles One EU Customer Will Make its Case
It has been "Issues Week" all week for Microsoft, and Thursday, the company took on the dreaded interoperability issue. But its choice of message was called into question a bit yesterday after Microsoft boasted of having signed up its first official customer for its communications and interoperability IP licenses: Quest Software, the manufacturer of the Toad data modeling system.
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10.3.2007 TechEd 2007 Preview: Now It's Developers' Turn to Make Changes
With Windows Vista already a firmly entrenched product in many homes and some businesses, and with Windows Server 2008 cruising toward a final release in the second half of this year, Microsoft may feel it's time for its many partners and developers with an interest in Windows' success to stand and deliver.
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4.6.2007 Ultimately, Touch Will Make the Killer Windows 7 Applications
Undoubtedly it is the ecosystem of third-party software solutions that make Windows the platform that it is today, sharing the operating system's success.
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12.11.2008 Microsoft Promotion: make MSN Your Homepage & Win a Zune
How badly does Microsoft want to promote the Zune? Not badly enough to think of anything particularly ingenious. Unique? yes. Succesful? No.
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15.2.2007 How-To: Remove the Windows BSOD icon in Leopard, make OS X a little less smug
It's pretty clear that Apple left no stone unturned in Leopard, making changes and fixes throughout the new operating system.
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31.10.2007 OneCare Death to Make Room for Free Morro Antivirus for Windows 7
A future core antimalware solution will replace Windows Live OneCare, which, considering the price of a one year subscription, has already qualified for an alternative to free security software, come mid-2009.
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25.11.2008 Make No Mistake About It, the XP SP3 RTM Direct Download Links Are Live
Make no mistake about it, the gold bits of Windows XP Service Pack 3 are available for download straight from Microsoft, contrary to what the company is claiming.
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1.5.2008 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008Windows "Mojave" Experiment Hits The Web
Well, we've all heard about the Mojave experiment, Microsoft's scheme to show people who stuck with XP how great Vista really is. After demoing
Mojave to the consumers, they were then told that it was actually Windows Vista. The site below shows clips that were taken during the experiment.
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29.07.2008Is Microsoft's Mojave Vista experiment backfiring with users?
Is a new marketing campaign what Vista really needs? The first stages of it -- already under way with the Mojave Experiment -- are certainly drawing
attention to Vista. But in ignoring Vista's problems, could the campaign also be backfiring?..
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01.08.2008Windows ˜Mojave Video Posts
Chris Flores: Last week we showed a video of the Mojave Experiment to a small group of folks here on campus. Today we are excited to share the
results with the public.
For those new to the Mojave Experiment,
it's a focus group effort we initiated a few weeks ago. We interviewed and polled 120 participants in San Francisco, in hopes of better understanding
everyday users' perceptions of Windows Vista and seeing whether there really is a gap between perception and reality. We wanted to see how people
reacted to Windows Vista when they were not aware they were seeing Windows Vista. We recorded our discussions, and today you can see them for
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29.07.2008Windows "Mojave" - Vista ad compaign
From the Windows Vista Blog:
"Last week we showed a video of the Mojave Experiment to a small group of folks here on campus. Today we are
excited to share the results with the public.
For those new to the Mojave Experiment, it's a focus group effort we initiated a few
weeks ago. We interviewed and polled 120 participants in San Francisco, in hopes of better understanding everyday users' perceptions of Windows
Vista and seeing whether there really is a gap between perception and reality. We wanted to see how people reacted to Windows Vista when they were not
aware they were seeing Windows Vista. We recorded our discussions, and today you can see them for yourself."
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29.07.2008Mojave Experiment Updated
Microsoft's Mojave Experiment involved showing Vista to skeptical users whilst tricking them into thinking it was a new version of Windows and
recording their reactions.
David Webster who came up with the idea for the experiment has posted about an update to the Mojave website
which is now showing the demos subjects were shown. The site features Silverlight heavily and presents videos in a zoomable "cloud".
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27.08.2008Mojave experiment gets a Web site
Evidently spurred on by the reception it got at Thursday's financial analysts meeting, Microsoft has decided to move ahead with plans to turn the
Mojave project into a full-fledged Windows Vista marketing effort.
As
first reported by CNET News, Microsoft last week
interviewed XP users who were skeptical of Vista and showed them what it called a secret new version of Windows, "Mojave." It was in fact Vista.
The results, according to Microsoft executives, were almost universally positive, with participants expressing surprise when told it was actually
Vista they had been using.
For now, Microsoft has put up a
teaser site, with
plans to show the actual video footage next week.
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26.07.2008Microsoft looks to 'Mojave' to revive Vista's image
After months of searching for ways to defend its oft-maligned Windows operating system, Microsoft may just have found its best weapon: Vista's
skeptics.
Spurred by an e-mail from someone deep in the marketing ranks, Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding
up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a
"new" operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that "Mojave" was
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24.07.2008Microsoft posts videos of users who liked Vista after thinking it was new OS
Microsoft has posted actual videos from its "Mojave Experiment," an effort to dispel negative stereotypes about Vista by making Windows users
think they were running a newer operating system that was actually Vista...
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29.07.2008Microsoft to post videos of users who liked Vista after thinking it was new OS
On Tuesday, Microsoft plans to post actual videos from its "Mojave Experiment" -- an effort to dispel negative stereotypes about Vista -- on a
recently set up "teaser" Web site, BetaNews has learned...
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29.07.2008The 'Forrester Experiment'
Joe Wilcox: I
suppose debunking reputable analyst firms is one way to attack negative Vista perceptions. But no way would have been
better.
First, it was the "
Mojave Experiment," which seeks to show
Vista haters can love the operating system if they think it's a new, unreleased Windows version. Now comes the "Forrester Experiment," where the
Windows Vista Team blog faults Forrester Research analyst Thomas Mendel's nasty report on Vista.
"Forrester Gets
Schizophrenic on Windows Vista" wrote Microsoft's Chris Flores on Friday, referring to Forrester report "Enterprise Trends: Vista Is Rejected; Mozilla and Apple Make Small Gains."
winbeta.org - 28.07.2008
Stanford Car Wins DARPA Robot
Race
This year's DARPA Grand
Challenge robot race across
the Mojave Desert had a much
more successful ending than
last year's event: entrants
actually completed the race.
Everyday consumer vehicles
were outfitted with computers
to completely automate the
driving process...
betanews.com - 11.10.2005
Enable Aurora Bootscreen in Windows Vista
The original Vista Bootscreen is very similar to Windows 2000, and is very bland and boring (you know, with the little catepillar bar scrolling from
left-to-right). But did you know that Vista comes with a much better highly visual bootscreen? Did you know how easy it is to enable it? No?
Microsoft may not have enabled this by default because of potential hardware issues, but that doesnt make sense because the minimum video card
requirements to even run Vista should handle the new bootscreen without any problem. In either case, here is how to make Vista look that much cooler
with the "Aurora" bootscreen...
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neowin.net - 03.11.2007
Are You Ready for Windows Vista?
Columnist Stuart Mudie
describes how to make the move
to Windows Vista using Windows
Vista Upgrade Advisor and
Windows Easy Transfer...
microsoft.com/windowsvista - 29.09.2006
Microsoft to help Eclipse developers make Java apps look Vista-native
In a growing effort to show the world it is embracing the open source community, Microsoft announced it will work with the Eclipse Foundation to allow
Java developers to make software applications that look native to the Windows Vista operating system...
betanews.com - 21.03.2008
Microsoft Updates Vista Assessment Tool
Those still considering
whether to make the jump to
Windows Vista will have
additional help with today's
2.0 release of Microsoft's
Vista Hardware Assessment
Tool. The application takes
inventory of a computer system
and makes recommendations if
upgrades are required...
betanews.com - 11.07.2007
50 Windows XP & Vista Tips & Tricks
Computer Active has compiled a list of 50 tips to improve performance of both XP and Vista.
For most people using a computer means using
Windows and over the years Microsoft’s operating system has become easier to use.
However, there is always room for improvement, so
in this feature we have compiled 50 of the finest tips for Windows XP and Vista. These can help to make Windows even better, easier to use and faster.
Most don’t even require you to install any extra software, so if you want to make your copy of XP or Vista better, it’s possible to get
started immediately.
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neowin.net - 09.05.2008
Microsoft Hints at Six Vista
Editions
A Windows Vista help page has
provided some insight into
Microsoft's packaging plans
for the next-generation
Windows release due out later
this year. While the company
has yet to make any official
announcement, Microsoft is
ostensibly preparing six
different editions of Windows
Vista...
betanews.com - 20.02.2006
UMPC for Vista given one more push with 'Origami Experience'
New software for Vista-using UMPC owners could make their portables into something more like what they expected to begin with. However, there may be
some hardware out there that won't be so welcoming...
betanews.com - 16.06.2008
Beta Patches Hint at Vista SP1 Features
Microsoft has released to
Windows Server 2008 beta
testers two new hot-fix packs
for Windows Vista, which
improve performance and
reliability, along with the
operating system's
compatibility with drivers and
hardware. The 12MB worth of
fixes are expected to make
their way into Vista Service
Pack 1 later this year...
betanews.com - 30.07.2007
Vista Hardware Assessment Tool Addresses Upgrade Dilemmas
Perhaps the most oft-asked
question by consumers with
regard to whether they should
adopt Windows Vista is whether
their six-month-old or older
hardware is too obsolete for
Vista to make good use of it.
This morning, Microsoft
released for free download the
XP version of its Vista
Hardware assessment tool,
whose aim is to tell consumers
what they may need to upgrade
in order to put the best
polish on those heavily
anticipated exclamations...
betanews.com - 21.02.2007
