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
But, nope, like any other mega-corp or aspiring mega-corp for that matter, they are pretty much only concerned about how well they can market their products. Quality be damned, it's not how good or useful a product is, but how good or useful a product appears to be (Example: every Apple product released this century so far.)
Hype it, hype it, and hype it some more, and once enough units have been moved, pushed, and sold, and once the obvious defects show up, then let the marketing department and the official bullshitters work their magic.
All they had to do is lower the price, throw away all the other versions of vista, make and support 32/ 64 bit Vista. Macs got it made never having to really worry about what version to load outside of obvious upgrades.
MS needs this band wagon, fix whats there and stop bullsh*tting the general public about why ignorant people can't recognize Vista disguised. Are they saying that the average users are stupid? I have always had a love hate relationship with MS. I really want to jump into vista, but can not justify the cost of the OS when I mainly game on my rig. Even though I am building a new gaming rig again, I most likely will load in XP Pro again. Esp. since I would use oem vista and then the way I change MB's, MS won't allow me to. So my Corp. ED of XP will do me just fine until they get their sh*t together.
If you have a powerful enough machine, it's really nice since they finally worked most of the bugs out of the drivers.
It's my observation that bashing Vista makes non tech people sound knowledgeable and smarter to non tech people. Those are the same people who ask Cdawall about RAM.
Micrsoft should have kept the test to itself, it has provided good information to them but it is flawed in design. Publishing the results will mean people argue over the design rather than the results. Provided us with a nice debate though:)
in 7 years i've gone from 128MB of ram costing $150 to 4GB of ram costing $140. i've gone from a celeron 400Mhz with no L2 cache to a 3.6GHz quad core with 8MB of L2 cache.
any argument about an OS 7 years later needing a system less than twice as fast as XP, is really clutching at straws - a new OS is for new PC's, or decent spec old ones, NOT for old rigs in general.
Some of your other quotes:
"Honestly, an perfect OS would leave NO footprint, but thats next to impossible." - that depends on what type of operating system you want. I've got an old computer that runs DOS from BIOS and nothing else. It fits your description and it's fairly useless. In my opinion, a perfect OS maximises hardware utilisation. Everyone has different ideals.
"half the reason Microsoft doesn't is so that hardware vendors will sell more because users will have to buy new hardware to run the new OS, thats common knowledge" - I'll quote Mussels for the response - "well you're talking crap". I mean, was there any basis for making such a statement?
We all have had good and bad days with MS OS but please lets try and debate from an accurate perspective.
In 5 years if your XP everyone will laugh at you and say your an OS dinosaur the world moved to Vista
imo vista will end up being more like windows ME in the history books, not because of stability but because of sales. the huge push for vista makes no sense to me when windows 7 is due out next year.
today it's "hey buy vista" tomorrow it's "hey buy windows 7" xp had an abnormal reign and many people aren't going to switch till it no longer suits their needs. which unfortunately is going to take awhile.
It seems to prefer 250-500MB more ram over XP
the backup options are hiding
the arguments for are that its a lot more stable, more virus proof, and more user friendly
(i've done ONE tweak to improve wireless performance, other than that windows update and the OS itself fixes/indentifies problems for me. its almost boring)