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The "Mojave Experiment"

Welcome to the "Mojave Experiment." What do people think of Windows Vista® when they don't know it's Windows Vista? We disguised Windows Vista as codename "Mojave," the "next Microsoft OS," so regular people who've never used Windows Vista could see what it can do - and decide for themselves. Now decide for yourself.

The "Mojave Experiment"

Apparently people loved it. Me? I use Vista at home and I love it too. I wish I could use it at work as well. XP is a drag in comparison.

I know what you're thinking:

"zomg, Vista is teh lame!"

And maybe it is if you're trying to upgrade an old machine or are stuck with software/peripherals from five years ago (and I know a lot of people are, so that's a valid complaint.) For my particular situation (a high end machine running Ultimate with current/latest version licenses for all my essential software) it's great.

There, I said it- great.

The biggest complaint I've had in the year I've been running it was the fact that my scanner was unstable and I had to replace it with a newer, Vista ready scanner and drivers. Even that's more on buggy driver support from the manufacturer than it is a fault with Microsoft.

Beyond that, while I have a few complaints about access control oddities, it's pretty cool.

I know what you're thinking now:

"Madness! Who's the crazy man?"

That'd be me :)

*I need to run a couple of normally innocuous apps in "root" mode to get them to work correctly- my Garmin training software being one- WTF?

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