[zilsolley3]

I wonder if these people are actually using Vista or just looking at it. Sure it looks all nice and it has some nice features but a default setup is so SLOW, even on a Core2 duo @ 2ghz and 2GB of RAM. My girlfriend just got a Dell 1525 and it would be way to frustrating for me to use out of the box. She doesn't know any better though, as long as it's faster than her old P3 1ghz laptop with XP and still runs her applications she is happy. This makes me laugh though, obviously setup to not show the numerous faults with it, and it's just a bunch of laymen that don't know anything at all and probably haven't used a PC since win 3.1(networking what's that?), or actors.

In regards to ME being better than Vista, at least the drivers (win98) worked on release and it did bring a lot of "features" that you saw on XP and then Vista. Personally I still prefer win2k :P

They were just watching a demo Source

Now consider this: the tests were carried out on an HP Pavillion DV 2000 multimedia laptop with 2GB RAM - a higher spec machine than your average consumer owns. Next, users were only shown demos. That's right, they were not allowed to interact with Mojave/Vista themselves.

Lastly - and as tech savvy readers I'm sure you know this point: it is easy to impress non techy people with almost anything. By definition they aren't aware of the full potential of what computers can and cannot do. In fact I regularly find friends emitting cries of 'ooooh' and 'wow' when I introduce them to something as simple as desktop search (so I'd love to see the reactions of those same participants to Ubuntu Beryl an interface considered legacy by Linux users). Not hating on Vista, I quite liked it (Beta) myself but don't have the money / need to upgrade atm. It is indeed very easy to impress people by showing people demos of all the flashy awesome things (which Vista has plenty of) but that's hardly a fair test of how well an operatingsystem works now, is it ...

[LoloLibia]

They were just watching a demo Source

That's embarrassing..

Windows 'haters' get duped.

[LINETFAD]

http://digg.com/microsoft/Microsoft_...haters_foolish

Microsoft is apparently still concerned about the popularity of its Vista operating system. Consquently it’s thinking up ever more innovative ways of demonstrating that Vista is, in fact, the canine’s gonads.
This time it took the form of The Mojave Experiment, a “Pepsi Challenge” style blind test in which 120 people who had a “low” perception of Vista, were given a demo of a new OS called Mojave, which was actually Vista Ultimate in disguise.
Low and behold, the same bitter cynics that had given Vista an average rating of 4.4 out of 10, were bowled over by this amazing new OS and gave it, on average, 8.5 out of 10. Haha..

[Mappaindy]

Vista < Win ME

[Gymngatagaica]

Vista < Win ME

lol thats cold

[gundorana]

is an 8.5 out of 10 not good?
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health shop

[jstizzle]

is an 8.5 out of 10 not good?

The problem is how the test was conducted. Users who have no idea that they are using Vista must be completely out of the loop in terms of OS's, and I'm sure MS cherry picked the results to garner a positive score. That's not to say I hate Vista, because I actually quite enjoy it. However, OSX Leopard is much, much better.

[lorrieholdridge]

I actually enjoy using Vista, it's impressively configurable and I like the whole look and feel of it.

With that said, I still dual boot and use XP to game

[LoloLibia]

Some of the videos of the "random people" on the Mojave site seem like actors. Anyway, if the people are really that clueless as to what Vista is like, they probably don't need it anyway.

It would also be interesting to see how many of them actually purchased it after this experiment.

[OmqMZtkv]

Vista < Win ME

no. this is absolutely rediculous. WinME is a POS. Vista might not be perfect, but it doesn't have unrecoverable crashes all the time.


I actually like Vista. My main issue is that there isn't much of a reason to have an upgrade over xp. I got it for free, and I like the media center, but there isn't all that much that has been better.

Mind you it isn't really worse either for most things but WinME was just so terrible...

[Tw1anJOO]

I'd say the findings are true, people are not buying and upgrading to Vista because all the bad stuff they have heard. A few people have a bad experience and the talk spreads like wildfire. My friends won't even touch Vista, but have they used it? nope, most have never seen it. All i get is the same response " I hear it sucks", "I heard it has too many problems" etc...[cursing]

[creewespock]

Ive been using Vista 64 since SP1 came out and I have no problems. Infact, I like it that the task manager opens up no matter what sort of crash is occurring, and then when I end a process IT ACTUALLY ENDS! XP was ungodly slow when it came to this.

[Attarderb]

Vista < Win ME

That is quite stupid. Vista may not be to your taste, but damn its a lot better than that POS.

Both my home vista x86 and x64 build have not crashed ONCE. So you may love your XP, fair enough, we use XP at my work and will not be upgrading it to Vista, but comparing it to ME is stupid.

/rant - I've woken up now.

[AdobeCreativeSuite]

I never had any problems with WinME.

[Pdarassenko]

I never had any problems with WinME.

Same, worked perfectly for me.

Guss it's the same as Vista, people who've never used it bashing it based on what they've 'heard'.

[abOfU9nJ]

Same, worked perfectly for me.

Guss it's the same as Vista, people who've never used it bashing it based on what they've 'heard'.

Not so!
Every PC I've ever worked on that has had major issues that weren't attributed to either AOL, Norton, iTunes or some other piece of crap software, has probably had WinME as a O/S.

I tried everything to keep WinME from dying, and even a fresh install on a newly built PC with the minimum of software and drivers installed would still crash without warning, The favourite way one install of ME constantly crashed was Netscape & IE having Kernel32.dll crashes, I literally had dozens on one clean install.

Biggest pile of crap ever released by Microsoft, as if the condescending dialog boxes constantly thrown up weren't bad enough, The restore function was a total joke, amongst other not so perfect things. [thumbdown]

[cmruloah]

I never had any problems with WinME.

Which is yet another paralell between Vista and ME, it works for some people.

[Mappaindy]

Some people have no sense of humour.

[Xavier_Spinner_Wheels]

Some people have no sense of humour.

LOL i was about to say "he might be joking"

[Pdarassenko]

Not so!
Every PC I've ever worked on that has had major issues that weren't attributed to either AOL, Norton, iTunes or some other piece of crap software, has probably had WinME as a O/S.

I tried everything to keep WinME from dying, and even a fresh install on a newly built PC with the minimum of software and drivers installed would still crash without warning, The favourite way one install of ME constantly crashed was Netscape & IE having Kernel32.dll crashes, I literally had dozens on one clean install.

Biggest pile of crap ever released by Microsoft, as if the condescending dialog boxes constantly thrown up weren't bad enough, The restore function was a total joke, amongst other not so perfect things. [thumbdown]

Mine must've been a magic copy.. Installed on loads of machines and very few issues. No more than with any OS anyway. Only thing that ever really buggered it up was Creative drivers.. but they can mess up anything.