Vista - not as bad as you think it is

by Julian Prokaza
on Mon 28 Jul 2008 1 Comment

The Mojave Experiment Ok, so the 'wow' didn't exactly happen in quite the way Microsoft hoped but are we all being a little too harsh on Windows Vista?

Microsoft certainly thinks so. It's set out to prove that, if we just gave Vista a chance, we'd all be ditching XP and Windows 2000 quicker than you can say 'blue screen of death'.

It's set up a little experiment, inviting 120 (presumably anti-Vista) Mac, Linux, XP and Windows 2000 heads to try out the 'next' version of Windows, codenamed 'Mojave'.

Presumably imagining that Microsoft had been hard at work producing the OS it should have done the first time round, 90% of the participants were said to be impressed. But there's a catch. Microsoft hadn't done any tweaking, in fact it had just presented a debranded version of Vista.

Oh, and before you ask, it wasn't running on a quad-core, twin GPU, 4GB RAM machine either, just a plain old HP Pavilion DV 2000 with 2GB RAM under the hood.

So does this prove we'd all really love Vista if we got over our preconceptions or will it take more than some viral marketing to get you to switch from XP or Mac OS? Have a look for yourself when the video goes live tomorrow.

[ Mojave Experiment]

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  • neutral

    by at 14:30 on 29 Jul 2008Report abuse

    Interesting. Take people who make up their own minds on the basis of hear say and entertain them with a few gewgaws and elicit gurgles of "awesome". How convincing.I run Vista. I wouldn't buy it again. Don't be taken in by this, it's marketing fluff. Ubuntu is better. So is Max OSX.

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