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Name: lurkswithin
http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/
I know this should be put on another forum but since it is a strong push away from XP ...well I thought that it would go here.
It just kills me to see how far some businesses will go as rumor has it this was all a sham with 120 demographically picked individuals
In The Matters Of Style,
swim with the current;
in matters of principle,
Stand Like A Rock
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the
freedom of thought which they avoid."

Hint******
1)In setting up experiments like this the sales pitch of being "privileged" to see a new operating system in itself is a psychological ploy...proven to effectively sway the participants to be "in favor of"
2)Microsoft set up the computers (how fast? how much ram?)
3)could only find about 35 participants that really had anything good to say ( click on the squares and see each clip....there are about 2 dozen of them from the same people instead of from all the different participants )
4)what I really loved on observing the video clips....the people that were actually using the computers was not the participants but specially trained operators.
5)and only showing one "displeased person" clip....questioning how come it was so fast????....reference item 2) above
In The Matters Of Style,
swim with the current;
in matters of principle,
Stand Like A Rock
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the
freedom of thought which they avoid."

In my view Mojave Experiment is just another slick marketing ploy used by M$. The best thing about this is that it obviously didn't cost them as much as it did with the original Wow performance. Not only that, M$ - being a $268 billion company (give or take dozen of billions) - was so cheapskate that each of the 16 skilled aerial dancers had to hail & take separate taxi home - no courtesy car or limousine service were provided.
i_Xp/VistaUser

lurkswithin: 3)could only find about 35 participants that really had anything good to say
Do you really want to watch 120 people look at an OS? If so, I'd suggest a hobby.4)what I really loved on observing the video clips....the people that were actually using the computers was not the participants but specially trained operators.
What, you expect MS to train random people (presumably) off the street, in their newest OS. Remember, they're there for a marketing stunt.To all:
There's a lot of Vista hate here, there, and everywhere. My question to CN at large is this: How has Vista harmed your computing experience? I'm looking for first hand experiences here; I don't care what happened when your brother's friend's uncle's dog played with Vista, unless said dog posts it here.And no, "I'm too cheep to spend $50 on more RAM," is not a valid argument; many used said argument to invalidate WinXP.
Finally, in interest of full disclosure, I'm running WinXP. Vista sticks both of my video capture cards and my 3D video card on the same IRQ; a move so stupid, not even XP will do it.

It's the usual Micro$oft panic sh_it, there's life with out them.
I would go the Unix / Linux way before I go for another Windows operating system...
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity...

How has Vista harmed your computing experience?
Who? Me? Not really but for those who bought brand-new PCs with Vista preinstalled, they still need to use this M$ tweak to improve performance.
If Vista is as great as these Mojave viewers thought so, why did M$ silently uploaded the above performance tuning guide four days later?
i_Xp/VistaUser

How has Vista harmed your computing experience?
When i was first given the oportunity to use Vista I tried to install it on an older machine that was first certified to be able to use Vista. After installation it crashed and in order to get it to load, I was forced into upgrading not just a graphics card but also a sound card as well.
Next came the LAN card that had to be replaced because the driver kept being disabled upon start-up.
Now after all that, I have had to disabled the security crapola that over runs the system as it cut my computing progress way down to less than 50% and also had to disable some 20 oddball services that were installed and that was not... nor would ever be used on this computer
In The Matters Of Style,
swim with the current;
in matters of principle,
Stand Like A Rock
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the
freedom of thought which they avoid."

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