Sunday, July 27th 2008
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Microsoft's 'new' OS Gets a Website
Last week, Microsoft conducted an experiment in San Francisco, USA where 120 users with a negative opinion on Windows Vista were introduced to a new OS to which a majority of them gave positive feedback, only to discover it was Windows Vista under the covers (covered here). Microsoft now wants to publish its results in a new website presumably with promotional tones over its so-far-flop Windows Vista operating system. Results come out in the form of videos, text and presentations. The website titled "The Mojave Experiment" can be reached here.
Source:
CNET
146 Comments on Microsoft's 'new' OS Gets a Website
However - i wonder just what the test they performed were. All just playing with the way it looks or delving right into the makings of it?
There is something that Microsoft is right about: there are lots of people that bash Vista without trying it. Of course there are also hundreds of people that tried it and hated it, but they are going to be harder to convince. I like their step by step approach. I bet people will start using Vista more if MS would collaborate more with AMD and nVidia to promote DX10 games.
As for me, I tried SP1, looked nice, worked very well on my PC in my sig, but I had problems installing my old Wacom tablet, because Wacom decided not to offer Vista support for serial tablets and force users into paying hundreds of dollars for newer USB tablets... For people not new in the tablet business, Wacom is the MS of tablets, being the biggest manufacturer of decent usable graphics tablets. No competition means they are having hard time convincing users to upgrade, because of the simple fact that their new tablets don't bring anything new to the table, except USB and some extra buttons! Lack of competition is dreadful :(
So MS is not the only evil doer, hardware manufacturers have their share in Vista's poor adoption rate!
thats kinda the point they're trying to make tho, 90% of people who hate vista have never used it more than 5 minutes. - if at all.
As for me, I don't care about vista being a resource hog or whatever. More or less, I want it to be so. What's the point of having a superpowerful PC if it doesn't get taxed by the OS. You can even turn down vista so it looks & feels just like XP :wtf: I even have vista running on an 8 yo rig. As these pc parts get more powerful, so should the OS. Bashing something that you haven't even use is plain stupid.
its really easy to convince response 2, 3 and 4 to get it just out of hey you know the only things that wont work well with vista are VPN, industry specific programs, etc. your using it for web browsing you'll be fine. it still is a MS product and feels like XP did you konw that sort of thing.
now those people dead set on sticking with XP are pains. they all have the same issue vista is slow, vista doesn't work with older computers, i'm used to XP my response to that is vista is slow when you put it on an old single core P3 with 768mb of ram. hence why your getting a new pc. want to konw why old things don't work well with new programs? simple they are old try and find XP drivers for a P1 desktop its the same as finding drivers for a P3 for vista its all about relativity. your new pc will work fine with vista now get over your preconcieved notions that you read on freaking cnet.
those kind of people piss me off. i understand the people who can't use IE beacause they need specific CAD/CAM programs of VPN or sometihng but the ones who just can't stand change can GTFO
Maybe AMD should do the samething with their Phenom lineup and call it something else just for a test...they got the same rap as Vista did when it came out and we see how that turned out. There are a lot of people changing their minds about the Phenom, but still it'd be nice to see those people using old systems yet still talking trash use one and talk about how sickly fast it was only to find out it was a 2.2Ghz Tri-core or something. :D
K
Before trying vista i felt like everyone says it is. After trying it i found it be a lot better. Ok its a resource hog, but if i bought a quade core proc, 4gb ram, good graphic card, why not put vista on it ?
It solved my big problem yesterday here
forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=66893
K
My video card and soundcard (auzentech) get WHQL drivers and control panels off windows update... its very convenient (and they're usually up to date as well)
Back in 2006, I purchased a copy of Quicken 2006 Home & Business to upgrade our aging Quicken 98 at work. When I tried to install it on Vista, it would continually crash. I looked up the issue on Intuit's website only to find out that Intuit claims that it is impossible for them to provide Vista support for the product. :rolleyes: I also just found out that Quickbooks 2006 suffers the same flaw. So those are two programs I am forced to upgrade if I want to use them on the new laptop.
So yeah, my complaints are definitely with the third parties who choose not to provide Vista support.
-won't be restricted to a 10 minute demo
-nor company policy to lie to customers that the OS goes by another name
;)
You see what I did there? If what MS did is so wholly then you should be able to do the exact same thing on your job at BB. But you can't! This is one reason why double standards have a negative reputation. Give me a break, a 10 minute demo is suppose to be a revelation? Are you kidding me, (this is a joke right)? I'm willing to believe that within that 10 minute demo they saw pretty, pretty, shiny, shiny and if it's true then yes it would yield positive results. But what about Vista itself? You know, the OS they would use at home. The OS they lied about to begin with. You cannot get the subject's experience in that because it was only a "10 min demo" of Mojave.
You can get more experience out of CC, BB or Walmart then in that survey and it speaks nothing of the opinion of Vista but only the demo.
Nobody said they liked it the results aren't even on the website yet (read the page), they're simply saying that when they ACTUALLY USED THE PRODUCT they did not claim it was crap. I know you're using XP and nobody is saying that XP is bad, we're simply saying that when people actually sat down and used Vista they found it to be just fine.
Relax and stop reading too deep into things or you'll start an pointless argument with the next 10 people on the post and the thread will be closed down.
K
i'm not a big MS fan but at least you can't say there not trying to fix what they fucked up