{"id":341,"date":"2008-08-30T07:21:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T07:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/08\/30\/behind-the-mojave-experiment-an-interview-with-david-webster.aspx"},"modified":"2008-08-30T07:21:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T07:21:51","slug":"behind-the-mojave-experiment-an-interview-with-david-webster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Mojave Experiment An Interview with David Webster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Mojave Experiment&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mojaveexperiment.com\">visit the Web site<\/a>) 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&#8217;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&#8211;that it&#8217;s too slow, too unremarkable, too incompatible, or just plain lousy&#8211;despite the fact that very few of these curiously opinionated people have ever actually used the thing. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a regular reader of this site, or of my <a href=\"http:\/\/community.winsupersite.com\/blogs\/paul\/default.aspx\">blog<\/a>, or a listener of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/paul\/podcast.asp\">podcast<\/a>, you&#8217;re familiar with the refrain: Windows Vista is not the piece of junk that so many people think it is. And yet everyone&#8217;s heard that it&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/showcase\/winvista_mojave.asp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/showcase\/winvista_mojave.asp\">http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/showcase\/winvista_mojave.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Mojave Experiment&#8221; (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&#8217;ve been heavily involved over the past year and a half: An astonishing number of people are aware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}