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Microsoft's "Mojave Experiment" Teaser Site Goes Live

Posted by timothy on from the resculpting-expectations dept.

MojoKid writes "Earlier this week, Microsoft was reported to be arranging a kind of 'blind taste test' to get die-hard Windows XP users to try Vista. They were told that they were trying a new OS, called Mojave. The report went on to suggest that users liked the OS, though they were actually running Vista. Now it appears Microsoft has put up a teaser site, with plans to show the actual video footage next week. Though the footage should at least have some entertainment value, it would be a bit of a reach to expect that the test methodologies were real-world enough such that users had to deal with things like user account control, driver updates, and broad application compatibility."

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  1. In other news by Harmonious+Botch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Researchers have conducting 'taste tests' have found that recipients of grits in their pants preferred having cold grits poured down their pants rather than hot grits.

    1. Re:In other news by mpeg4codec · · Score: 3, Funny

      The real question on everyone's minds is, of course, was Natalie Portman involved? If so, was she naked and/or petrified?

  2. Re:makes you wonder by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Repeat the experiment with a "Vista Capable" set of hardware, the stuff MS is getting sued over.

  3. 10 minutes? by Lucas.Langa · · Score: 5, Funny

    So... it just finished booting up?

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  4. Re:Only Vista? by Monoman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great PR job. I KNEW the Iraqi Minister of Information would land on his feet somewhere.

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  5. Stop Microsoft Violence! by smittyoneeach · · Score: 3, Funny

    Roseanne Roseannadanna: The violence in our cities must stop! Innocent people are traveling around on the Intertubes and finding themselves assaulted by violent corporations. Now they are using electrical gun-things to shock ordinary citizens when they innocently go to certain places.
    Chevy Chase: Uh, Roseanne, that's a teaser site, not a taser site.
    Roseanne Roseannadanna: Oh. Never mind.

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  6. Vista ... rocks? by PC+and+Sony+Fanboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, microsoft disguised vista as a good operating system... why don't they do that for EVERYONE?

    1. Re:Vista ... rocks? by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 5, Funny

      Vista is like Chili and Whiskey. It might seem good when it's on the tongue, but your ass will be sore in the morning.

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    2. Re:Vista ... rocks? by emc · · Score: 4, Funny

      Vista is like Chili and Whiskey. It might seem good when it's on the tongue, but your ass will be sore in the morning.

      You do know that you're supposed to drink whiskey, right?

  7. Brilliant PR. And: story about blind taste tests by dpbsmith · · Score: 3, Funny

    Very clever piece of PR on Microsoft's part. Nobody said ever said they weren't great at PR.

    Speaking of blind taste tests, a funny thing happened a long time ago... my son was about six years old, we were at a mall where they were inviting people to "take the Pepsi challenge." My son was all excited, and so we lined up. They put two plastic cups in front of him. He tasted both. They asked which one he liked better.

    "I like this one better," he said with a great air of seriousness, but, unfortunately for Pepsi, he went on solemnly, "because it's colder and it has more bubbles in it." The presenters tried to bull ahead ("You chose Pepsi!") but it was too late... everyone within earshot was cracking up.

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