I ran across The Mojave Experiment earlier today. The premise here is that people actually like using Windows Vista if they don't know that it's Windows Vista. I thought it was kind of interesting. And it made me feel better about not hating Vista myself. I wouldn't say that I love it, but I've been using it for a year and I haven't found anything that breaks the deal for me. In fact, I'm writing this from the family laptop which runs XP, and I find myself amazed at how slow it is.
So, just a few thoughts. Oh, and I'm not trying to pick a com-box fight here. This is all about personal preference.
-Rebekah
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This is a nice idea, but I have a strong suspicion that people who don't know the difference are probably not qualified to judge except on aesthetics (rather pointless, you're supposed to be able to customize that anyway) and "user-friendliness" (whatever that may mean). They might also get a little in the lack-of-bugginess department, but Windows' lack-=of-bugginess department is generally more of a "We'll move the bugs from this process to that process instead" department.
I've little personal preference in the Vista vs. XP debate because my prefernece is good ol' Macintosh. Yes, I'm a computer guy who thinks Macs are (or were? I'm not entirely sure about the new iMacs and OSX and its descendants, which I haven't gotten to try for financial reasons...) superior. Why is a long story involving arguments on several different issues and refutations of several common, but mistaken, complaints about Macs (such as that they're not customizable -- they are, I don't know why nobody could figure that out unless it's not being able to see what to do without the computer getting in your way with offers to "help" you).
Someone I know ssaid Windows only gets problematic when it gets viri, which can be stopped by proper protective programs -- I had to inform him that my dad always has put such on our computers and we still had a Windows that crashed randomly (not "when I do x it crashes so I can't do x") at least once a day (often more than once). XD
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