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The ad, which has just aired for the first time in the US, shows Microsoft founder Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld trying to “reconnect with real people” by moving in with a “normal” family.

It features Gates doing the robot dance and reading bedtime stories while Seinfeld – who was paid $US10 million for his part in the campaign – becomes embroiled in family politics.

The ad has been interpreted as a metaphor for what Microsoft is trying to achieve with the campaign. Whereas Apple’s “I’m a Mac” ads have been interpreted as an elitist Mac user bashing an ordinary PC user, the Microsoft ad positions the company as connecting with ordinary people…

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Have the tables turned? Decide for yourselves…here are 40 pretty good reasons to switch back to Microsoft Vista.

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The latest Windows packs a lot of code — more than any version of Windows ever — and some of it is just plain unnecessary. All of that excess code has a way of slowing down an operating system. You can regain some PC performance by removing unneeded features.

Computeruser identified a dozen Vista features that you can turn off right now. Some are shiny baubles that slow down graphics performance, while others are optional utilities that hog memory when they shouldn’t. A few can actually be quite useful, though they play a major role in bogging down your PC…

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Lifehacker has written a tutorial for stripping your Vista installation down to the bare essentials and copying files over to a USB drive which has much faster transfer rates. This tutorial is especially useful for Administrators who are constantly installing Vista on multiple systems.

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Very dark black visual style with white outlines and blue highlights. Goes well with a moonlit night scene wallpaper.

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For those closet apple lovers among us who want to cover up their vista interface with an apple interface Nice compact taskbar in this nice clean visual style.

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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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Unique set of colored themes that are well designed and pleasing to the eye. Package includes matching logon and logoff screens, as well as shutdown dialog…sweet!

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