14 September 2008

It's not nice to fuck with people, but they have been doing it for years...

Microsoft, in one of those only-at-Microsoft moments, decided to organize, film, and broadcast a commercial showing them deliberately fooling people, seemingly at random (though all were previously Vista users), by showing them a computer running something (falsely) called Mohave.
The joke, if there is one? What the computer was really running was none other than that renowned POS*, Microsoft Vista.
The amazing part is that Microsoft seems to be happy that they can fool people into believing that a strange and different POS is so much better than their existing POS...
Types of Computer Users participating in the 'Mojave Experiment':
84% Windows XP users
22% Apple operating system users
14% Pre-Windows XP users
1% Linux users

94% of respondents rated the 'new operating system' codenamed Windows Mojave higher than they initially rated Windows Vista before the demo.

Of the 140 respondents polled (on a scale of 1-10 where 10 was the highest rating):
The average pre-demo score for Windows Vista was 4.4.
The average post-demo score for Windows Mojave was 8.5.
Many respondents said they would have rated the “new operating system” higher, but wanted more time to play with it themselves.
19% of respondents rated Mojave a 10.0
Rico says that he, of course, runs OS X, and wouldn't use a Gates machine again without a large gun to his head held by a person ready to use it...


*If you're a Gates machine user, POS stands for Personal (Computer) Operating System. If you're a Mac user, then it means exactly what you think it means...

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