New Vista compatiblity site launched... and pulled again

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Microsoft has launched a new online tool designed to test whether customers' existing hardware and software will work with Vista - although the site is already experiencing compatibility issues of its own.
A full 18 months after the commercial release of Vista, Microsoft is clearly still battling the perception that Vista is incompatible with various hardware and software packages.

The launch of the operating system was marred by reports of missing drivers for graphics cards, peripherals and various software packages.

In what seems a rather belated effort to address such problems, Microsoft yesterday launched the Microsoft Vista Compatibility Center<

The site would theoretically allow users to check the Vista friendliness of various devices, including MP3 players, cameras, graphics cards and routers.

However, the site appears to be experiencing its own performance problems, with the site now showing a blank page with the simple message: "The Windows Vista Compatibility Center will be launching soon, please check back!"
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Latest Vista update:

"Microsoft: Vista Isn't As Bad As You Think"

You know you've got a PR problem when...

Suspicious Vista detractors were the target of an OS mind-trick, Microsoft grabbed a handful of people who had only heard about Vista and subjected them to the "Mojave Experiment."

It doesn't involve probes or Area 51 or shock treatment. The Mojave Experiment involves a simple switcharoo scheme where Vista is replaced by Microsoft's "new" new operating system, called Mojave. You can probably see where this is going already: Mohave is a trick; it's still Vista

At the Windows Vista Blog, Chris Flores writes about Microsoft's concern about the gap between Vista perception and Vista reality. Their hunch was that people would like Vista if they got to know it and that they only thought they hated it, likely because everybody told them it sucked.

So, Microsoft pull aside 120 respondents who used other operating systems like Linux, or OSX, or were still stuck on XP, asked them what they thought about Vista. The video shows reviews weren't very good, and when asked to rate the system on a scale of one to ten, these same people who'd never used it before rated Vista an average of 4.4.

Not so hot.
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