Friday, July 25th 2008
Microsoft Spins Over a 'Mojave' Approach to Grow Vista User-base
Choice is a wonderful thing. Informed Choice is even better, where you choose something after knowing its inside-outs. The very opposite of informed choice is dogma, where you rigidly oppose something and stick to your beliefs. Incidentally, dogma seems to be one of the significant factors keeping users away from embracing Windows Vista OS, of what can be inferred from an experiment by Microsoft in San Fransisco, United States. A group of Windows XP users having negative impressions on Windows Vista were introduced to a "new" operating system they referred to as "Mojave". User experiences on using this operating system were noted and feedback taken. A surprising 90 percent of these users gave positive feedback on this new OS. They were later told that the new OS was nothing else but Windows Vista.
Despite Microsoft releasing numerous updates and fixes to the Vista OS making it a fairly stable, reliable OS close to expectations if not exactly on par, it seems to be mass dogma that's keeping users away from adopting this new OS. Going back to that experiment, a user is reported to have exclaimed "Oh wow", something Microsoft expected users to do with the new OS originally, as portrayed in those numerous television and print commercials going with the tag line "wow". Following the recent announcement of a huge budget allocation towards propagating Vista (covered here) for home and enterprise segments, the message being sent out is that Microsoft is not only being aggressive but also proactive.
Source:
CNET
Despite Microsoft releasing numerous updates and fixes to the Vista OS making it a fairly stable, reliable OS close to expectations if not exactly on par, it seems to be mass dogma that's keeping users away from adopting this new OS. Going back to that experiment, a user is reported to have exclaimed "Oh wow", something Microsoft expected users to do with the new OS originally, as portrayed in those numerous television and print commercials going with the tag line "wow". Following the recent announcement of a huge budget allocation towards propagating Vista (covered here) for home and enterprise segments, the message being sent out is that Microsoft is not only being aggressive but also proactive.
231 Comments on Microsoft Spins Over a 'Mojave' Approach to Grow Vista User-base
This is a reason that the mojave experiment has pissed me off. MS has gotten plenty of cash from a lot of users/ oem's over the years and to have committed treasonous experiments on the unwitting consumer is unforgivable to me. How much do we as consumers need to take from MS. They have us over a barrel and they know it.
I would love to be the CEO of MS for one week. A Free OS upgrade for those willing to turn in the existing retail license of any OS...That would make more sense than the f**king mojave experiment has.
1.misinformed by microsoft haters? who are they?
2.You can't release one???....One OS.....you can for the END USER....meaning us...that is who we are talking about here now, right! And why not?
You are missing the point. MS can do allot better than what they are doing and mojave for the final time was a insult to all consumers.
There is (for a home user)
Vista basic - cheap, no frills (and useless imo)
Vista home premium - 99% of people are satisfied with this
Vista ultimate - this is home premium with the business features tacked on (ridiculous retail price)
then there is the x64 flavours of these.
To be honest i dont see the problem, if that confuses you so much... well, you really should stick with a mac.
Release many versions of one OS and then have the mojave experiment ,,,this was a joke and insult. It showed how MS really looks at their end users.
what if all the MB and CPU mfg's locked out any possibility of over clocking. I am sure this would piss off lot of people. You see the evolution of oem's is to allow for end users to do what they want how they want.
You see I know that I have spent plenty of money in MS's direction and as a consumer am disappointed that they stooped this low to prove nothing outside of some people are easily stooped.
Education is a terrible thing to waste....so Microsoft educate your consumers
The experiment proved many, many people are vista haters without ANY knowledge or proof of it being so. MS proved that a large amount of people who hated vista, have never actually used it.
This offends you... why? is it because you too, hate vista without ever having used it? do you feel threatened somehow?
you really arent making any sense OR a point here. you're just ranting that MS is evil and vista sucks without ANY logic, reason, or backing.
edit:
your message is coming across as:
'there are too many versions of vista. this confuses me, and because of this i have decided microsoft is evil and deliberately doing this to make more money'
Remember we are speaking about end users, not business. I understand the need for a version optimized for the business sector but for the end user I am sure they would want all the bells and whistles that come with V Ult. and not a scaled down version. But then again you need to educate them how to use it. Not make fools of them and show it publicly.
Again, in my unscientific opinion, I would state that I and my colleagues as well as many other people,,,,thought to themselves or spoke it outwardly "what a bunch of stupid people ...and what nerve it took MS to do this then show the video of people getting punked publicly". Well I hope they were all payed well. Maybe they got a free version of windows 95 because they didn't know any better.
We can have different opinions about MS but the mojave experiment was a public disrespect to allot of people in and out of the industry.
You need to get off the evil thing,,,,I did not state this. Having a opinion different from yours is fine you need to respect this, trying to fault me for this and put words in my mouth is not what TPU is all about....:toast:
I am tuning 50 in a week. I have seen technology grow from nothing to something. I remember when windows needed to be loaded from floppy's. To say I am stuck in the XP zone is shallow on your end. I understand that in order to gain everything I need to experience from gaming I need to jump into vista.
In this thread I was sharing my OPINION of the mojave experiment and MS's play in this.
farlex85...thanks for at the least giving me the respect of sharing my opinion.:toast: I am not offended to the point of walking away from using MS but just present the other side of thinking.
Also MS had to rename it from Vista for this, the negitive bias would still be intact otherwise towards vista.
You are sounding like a MS conspiracy theorist. MS is popular because they give people what they want with all the features they want. OS's are feature driven. Gates learned this back when he bought the mouse concept from Xerox plus the gui idea, many years ago.
He learned it then...... you can learn it now. ;)
the BUSINESS features added to ultimate include data encryption, total OS/HDD backup features... and well not much
the useless additions added to it for 'home' users are animated desktops and texas hold em poker.
ultimate has nothing for a home user - if you and your 'associates' want those features... buy business or ultimate. i cant help it if you're such a whiner that you want the features of the top model at the price of the lowest, go into a car dealership with that attitude and see what you get.
HAL7000... you're just offering irrational things without ANY useful info. you dispute everything i'm saying because its a opinion, yet all you offer is opinion with just as little backing yourself.
seriously, and i mean this in a way that wont offend the mods or you: If you SERIOUSLY cannot wrap your mind around 3 kinds of OS for home users (basic, premium, ultimate) and two business editions (business and server)... i'm surprised you figured out how to post here. XP home, pro, and server 2003? dear god theres three already for XP, its not that much different.