Behind the Mojave Experiment An Interview with David Webster

Microsoft’s “Mojave Experiment” (visit the Web site) is a controversial and effective ad campaign aimed at getting individuals to form their own opinions about Windows Vista. This effort cuts to the heart of a matter with which I’ve been heavily involved over the past year and a half: An astonishing number of people are aware of the conventional wisdom about Windows Vista–that it’s too slow, too unremarkable, too incompatible, or just plain lousy–despite the fact that very few of these curiously opinionated people have ever actually used the thing.

If you’re a regular reader of this site, or of my blog, or a listener of my podcast, you’re familiar with the refrain: Windows Vista is not the piece of junk that so many people think it is. And yet everyone’s heard that it’s horrible. I blame a number of factors for this disconnect between the reality I see every day with Windows Vista on a wide range of machines and the fantasy world in which Windows Vista is a poor product doing poorly in the marketplace.

Full Article – http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_mojave.asp

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