Microsoft Begins Its Fight Against Macs

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Posted July 29, 2008 at 8:09pm by iClarified

Microsoft has begun its fight against Mac popularity with the Mojave Experiment.

The Mojave Experiment attempts to find out what people think of Windows Vista when they don't know its Windows Vista. Microsoft disguised Windows Vista as "Mojave" the next Microsoft OS and secretly recorded peoples reactions to the "new" OS.

Once their reactions had been recorded the participants were then told that they were actually using Vista.

According to Microsoft, over 90 percent of these users came out with a complete changed, positive outlook on the operating system.

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MStock - August 1, 2008 at 1:43pm

this was the funniest SH*T i have ever seen.... they pack the room full of noobs, that dont know anything about computers, and show them the fastest computers they could build, with nothing on it except for VISTA. haha. and all of the ppl, on top of being noobs, have never used vista before. they should have had ppl, that thought it sucked that had it, and "showed" them how to stich photos.....haha they should have had some devs in their explaining why they didnt like the os....from a dev standpoint.... imean they should have at least had a gamer interviewed.....

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archer1702 - July 31, 2008 at 10:04am

I never liked vista! Xp is far more stable in my opinion! I am a Mac user! They only think microsoft should fix is to lower the requirements it needs to run! While mac os only needs 512mb to run, vista needs minimum 1gb!!! i rest my case.

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thania8 - July 30, 2008 at 2:07pm

Hey look at that::: its reallly a µsoft EXPERIMENT: that means, they try to get acceptance with the almost same "short" clip with the final point: vista is fine.. What I mean is: check the last picture, if apple tilt this kind of picture, it will zoom and follow the perspective...

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thania8 - July 30, 2008 at 1:47pm

Hey look at that::: it reallly a µsoft EXPERIMENT: that means, they try to get acceptance with the almost same "short" clip with the final point: vista is fine.. What I mean is: check the last picture, if apple tilt this kind of picture, it will zoom and follow the perspective...

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Emil - July 30, 2008 at 9:35am

It should read "Microsoft Begins Its Fight Against XP"

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Tim - July 30, 2008 at 2:48am

I work with Vista at work because i have too but i own a mac. but i must say vista is Sh*T! I rather XP if i had to get a Windows OS.

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Tim - July 30, 2008 at 2:31am

I work with Vista at work because i have too but i own a mac. but i must say vista is Sh*T! I rather XP if i had to get a Windows OS.

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Brindy - July 30, 2008 at 12:31am

They use Flash instead of Silverlight because the Flash platform has the penetration that Silverlight doesn't (and probably won't) and since a lot of people would just close the page once presented with the "install Silverlight" button it means their marketing would fail at the first hurdle. However, Flash Player 9.0 is now present on > 95% of all personal computers.

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buck - July 29, 2008 at 11:23pm

this is pretty cool

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Greg Reed - July 29, 2008 at 10:39pm

Interesting how they use Adobe Flash for the rich elements on the Mojave site. What happened to Silverlight?

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Zul - July 29, 2008 at 10:20pm

the music which was playing on all the videos "copied from mac video adds " lol vista is a huge COPY cat but i have to say vista is more stable operating system so far then the previous OS systems

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