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The way to market Vista... Don't mention it's Vista!

Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up 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... ...full story at digg

from digg on Fri, Jul 25 2008

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