The Mojave Experiment

DEEhunter · Post by **DEEhunter** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:59 pm

Basically the experiment asked: “What do people think of Windows Vista when they don’t know it’s Windows Vista?” The Mojave Experiment involved 140 participants, who had never used Windows Vista before. They were asked to trial “Mojave”, the “next Microsoft OS”. What they didn’t know was that Mojave was actually Windows Vista in disguise, and the results were very interesting.

http://www.microsoft.com/nz/digitallife ... vista.mspx

unknownv2 · Post by **unknownv2** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:01 pm

I miss Vista

. Anyways, I guess that does reveal people's true feelings, behind all of the hate.

metkillerjoe · Post by **metkillerjoe** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:02 pm

Its a pathetic excuse for a blind test. All participants were ignorant idiots (all made presumptions on a product without trying it), but MS is doubly wrong for potraying these people in the commercial.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:05 pm

I find it in the same stupid vein as those Carl's Jr. commercials where they go into a supposedly high-class restaurant, and get Carl's Jr. food. Pointless. :/

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:23 pm

I thought it was rather interesting. But as I pointed out before (ages ago when this was released), it was more a presentation on the power of the media, how it can ruin the view on something you haven't tried and when you do, its corrupted due to the them. - Though, I am not saying that the media is what ruined Vista, I am not going to bring its flaws/benefits here, but I think it was a major force for the public such as these fellows.

metkillerjoe · Post by **metkillerjoe** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:53 pm

ScottyGEE wrote:I thought it was rather interesting. But as I pointed out before (ages ago when this was released), it was more a presentation on the power of the media, how it can ruin the view on something you haven't tried and when you do, its corrupted due to the them. - Though, I am not saying that the media is what ruined Vista, I am not going to bring its flaws/benefits here, but I think it was a major force for the public such as these fellows.

But why say something is bad when you haven't even tried it?

"Have you ever tried Vista?"

"No."

"What would you rate it out a scale of 1-10?"

*holds up a 0*

I felt bad for both idiots. The one who held up the sign, and the idiot that thought of bringing in the idiot.

Xero · Post by **Xero** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:50 pm

I have Vista and i can say it's a fantastic OS i don't see why people hate so much. o.0

-Legendary- · Post by **-Legendary-** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:41 pm

Xero wrote:I have Vista and i can say it's a fantastic OS i don't see why people hate so much. o.0

Agreed

guysullavin · Post by **guysullavin** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:44 pm

yea, i'll probably use it with my new computer.

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:49 pm

I'm a vista hater lol. In my experiences I've had nothing but trouble with vista. I'm one of the people that supports staying at XP and just ignoring vista as ever having been released.

-DeToX- · Post by **-DeToX-** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:50 pm

I would get it if it wasn't so damn incompatible for all that I need to do. =|

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:00 am

It's pointless and it proves nothing.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:56 am

The Mojave Experiment is old. It proves nothing. "Look how stable this version of windows is, look, no crashes, look no errors, look no compatibility issues whilst it's running in a tightly controlled user environment"

Fair enough if the participants got to take the OS home for a few weeks, to install their favourite game, applications they use in their spare time (e.g. modding apps) etc, but they didn't. They were given a short overview of Vista, in a controlled environment where pretty much any of the bad stuff that people dislike Vista for couldn't have happened.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:54 am

This is Microsoft's attempt at trying to win back people to buy their operating system once again. Personally if I was in Microsoft's position, I would try to strive to have the user enjoy using the OS first before I go into functionality.

Aumaan Anubis · Post by **Aumaan Anubis** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:24 am

Not last week, the AOL application on a very new vista-installed laptop, started replicating its own window over and over again. Had to right click > Close group, but even with them all gone, they kept replicating. Had to restart it.

I have never seen that before on any other computer/OS.

I'm sticking with XP.

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:29 am

Geo wrote:The Mojave Experiment is old. It proves nothing. "Look how stable this version of windows is, look, no crashes, look no errors, look no compatibility issues whilst it's running in a tightly controlled user environment"

Fair enough if the participants got to take the OS home for a few weeks, to install their favourite game, applications they use in their spare time (e.g. modding apps) etc, but they didn't. They were given a short overview of Vista, in a controlled environment where pretty much any of the bad stuff that people dislike Vista for couldn't have happened.

Mines run all my modding apps, runs all my games and hasn't crashed since I got it.

guysullavin · Post by **guysullavin** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:32 am

Cryticfarm wrote: Mine run's all my modding apps, runs all my games and hasn't crashed since I got it.

which games do you have?
im wondering, so that way if i have vista i know these are a definitive work...

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:37 am

guysullavin wrote:
Cryticfarm wrote: Mine run's all my modding apps, runs all my games and hasn't crashed since I got it.
which games do you have?
im wondering, so that way if i have vista i know these are a definitive work...

The Orange Box, Crysis, COD4, Halo 1, WoW (lol), Ragnarok online, Guild wars (I don't play of coarse), Spore :p (just got

) , starcraft, and a lot of other games I have forgotten the name too :\, oh yeah, gmod.

xbox · Post by **xbox** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:57 am

Plus all of the right drivers?

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:26 am

xbox wrote:Plus all of the right drivers?

Yes.