Windows Market-Share Falls Below 90% Mark, Hits 15 Year Low

[mdm-adph]

Personally I love the Mojave experiment. It shows just how ignorant people can be. They'll listen to their neighbor's pimple faced nephew when he says "gawd Vista teh sux... I hate Vista" and allow themselves to be convinced by it. The Mojave experiment exploited a handful of these types and when the commercials came out then thousands of people with a similar mentality quietly thought to themselves about how ignorant they probably are with regards to Vista.

I would've liked it a lot better had it been something like:

"Here, let me show you some cool things that Vista can actually do."

::shows some cool stuff on a responsive system that doesn't crash::

"Hey, that's actually pretty cool. Guess I was wrong about Vista.

Instead of:

"HURR HURR ISN'T THIS COMPUTER COOL IT'S THE NEW WINDOWS"

"OMGWTF WOW YOU'RE RIGHT THAT'S FAST"

"LOL THAT WAS ACTUALLY VISTA WE FOOLED YOU LOL!!!111"

"OMG UR SO AMAZING MICROSOFT THANK YOU"

Like how Microsoft did it. Once again, they had an opportunity, and blew it by trying to be pompous by insinuating that they "know better."

 

[FordGT90Concept]

While I don't agree with the premise of the Mojave commercials (I don't like the idea of someone tricking users into thinking they're using another OS when they're not -- I can put a WinXP skin on a copy of Ubuntu and show people some wiz-bang effects, but it doesn't mean they think Linux is great)...

I too don't agree with the approach but seeing how many people, for whatever reason, hate Vista, they probably couldn't get anyone to agree to sit down and try it. In that regard, it is effective. That is, it is effective at dispelling the misconception that Vista is unfathomably horrible.


They took the single-blind trial approach. Blind studies are cruel to the people involved due to intentional concealment or misinformation but they do effectively make a point.