"The Mojave Experiment"

[Lawson]

The "Mojave Experiment"

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REDMOND, Wash.--Evidently spurred on by the reception it got at Thursday's financial analysts meeting, Microsoft has decided to move ahead with plans to turn the Mojave project into a full-fledged Windows Vista marketing effort.

As first reported by CNET News, Microsoft last week interviewed XP users who were skeptical of Vista and showed them what it called a secret new version of Windows, "Mojave." It was in fact Vista. The results, according to Microsoft executives, were almost universally positive, with participants expressing surprise when told it was actually Vista they had been using.

For now, Microsoft has put up a teaser site, with plans to show the actual video footage next week. (As I mentioned before, Mojave was something put together in the past couple of weeks by internal Microsoft people and is not the larger advertising campaign coming from new ad agency Crispin Porter and Bogusky.)

Although the video was compelling and entertaining, at least some of the people I talked to who saw the video at Thursday's analyst meeting also stressed that early demos of Vista also looked good. The video, necessarily, doesn't show what it is like to, say, install software or hook Vista up to a home network. My guess is the participants didn't have to endure frequent User Account Control notifications either.

Still, it represents a more aggressive Microsoft that wants to go on the offensive with its Vista marketing. Earlier on Friday, Microsoft's Windows Vista Team Blog got unusually combative over this week's Forrester study that was critical of Vista's adoption among large businesses.

"Forrester Gets Schizophrenic on Windows Vista," read the headline of the posting from Windows team member Chris Flores.

I thought this was just great! I have been using Vista since RC dates, and I have yet to have any major issues with it. I am an avid user of Ubuntu 8.04 and 7.10 and I find myself leaning towards Vista when I need to do all of my work and using linux for most of my play on my laptop.

What's your perception on Vista if you have never used it before?

[Bob]

At least i'm not the only person that likes Vista

I don't see why people have such problems with it. Sure i've had some problems but no more problems then I had with XP. A majority of my problems come from shoddy drivers company release for vista 64 (hint: don't install ATI catalyst control panel...it doesn't like vista).

[basso4735]

i am liking it except for the stupid allow/cancel pop ups. maybe you can disable them i dont know, i just upgraded a week or so ago

[DennyCrane]

It's very popular to bash Vista.

[Bob]

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Originally Posted by basso4735

i am liking it except for the stupid allow/cancel pop ups. maybe you can disable them i dont know, i just upgraded a week or so ago

I'm assuming you are talking about User Account Control? If so go to the start menu-> Run-> in the run box type "msconfig" then go to Tools-> and scroll down to where it says "disable UAC" and highlight it. Then click the "launch" button and restart and you won't be nagged to death anymore.

[bacon_x]

i love pcs i have used with vista, I am just waiting until i get a new system to use it.

[basso4735]

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Originally Posted by Bob

I'm assuming you are talking about User Account Control? If so go to the start menu-> Run-> in the run box type "msconfig" then go to Tools-> and scroll down to where it says "disable UAC" and highlight it. Then click the "launch" button and restart and you won't be nagged to death anymore.

thanks bob.

[Lawson]

or control panel -> User Accounts -> Disable UAC

[Craig]

start doing FPS benchmarks, you'll learn to hate Vista

[panic!]

Yeah, I'd only change settings through msconfig unless you're troubleshooting.