Topic: Microsoft's "The Mojave Experiment" Vista Campaign

[Xessive]

Have you guys seen Microsoft's newest campaign (desperate measure) to sell Vista? It's entitled The Mojave Experiment and I think it's retarded.

I like the message "don't judge something before you try it" and when it comes to a product I have tried (and in fact use every day) I can certainly say it is nothing impressive or even worthwhile. You're not really missing anything on XP besides a small measure of stability and an obnoxious line of security. DirectX 10 is no big deal; DX11 is on the way anyhow and with any hope the coming of Codename: Windows Seven will easily outweigh any reason to even consider Vista.

[Quemaqua]

I got tired of waiting for the slow-ass website to load, and considering that I already don't give a lick about Vista, I doubt this will change my mind.  Anyone want to sum it up for me?

[idolminds]

MS takes some people that "don't like/hate" Vista, tell them to test out their "new OS" called Mojave....which is just Vista. Then all the people are like "Wow, this is all good and shit" and then MS is all like "Dude, you just been pranked" and then the people are all like "OMG no wai!"

[Quemaqua]

Yawn.  Try again.  The only people that would work on are idiots with no actual reason to dislike the OS, who just parrot what other people say.  Plus it would be obscenely easy to fake.

[idolminds]

MS: "Don't judge Vista before you try it!"
People: "Ok. Torrent plz"
MS: "Shit."

[Cobra951]

I've never even been tempted to look up a torrent. 

[gpw11]

Yawn.  Try again.  The only people that would work on are idiots with no actual reason to dislike the OS, who just parrot what other people say.  Plus it would be obscenely easy to fake.

That's kind of the point. Vista has a bad rap and as such people aren't buying it based on word of mouth (a lot of which actually is pretty stupid).

[idolminds]

True. Though I think MS should be more concerned with the "What does Vista do for me that XP doesn't?" question. I've looked up some of the new exciting features and found 90% of them I'd never want, and the other 10% I wont use due to already using alternatives. There's just no real compelling reason to get Vista if you're already running XP (for me, anyway).

[Quemaqua]

Eh, I think it's been bullshit from the ground up.  There's very little that Vista does which XP doesn't do in some form, and while there are a few upgrades here or there, they aren't worth the tradeoff for all the extra bullshit it adds.  You want to use it, be my guest, but I know for a fact that a significant portion of the software I use (a lot of which is community developed) hates Vista.  That alone would be enough to keep me away from it, let alone the DX10 ideological clusterfuck, the potential performance hits (which by my research far outweigh the few potential increases), and the idiotic "let's just make it shinier" mentality everyone seems to have adopted in the last few years.  They can shove it right back where it came from.

[gpw11]

True. Though I think MS should be more concerned with the "What does Vista do for me that XP doesn't?" question. I've looked up some of the new exciting features and found 90 of them I'd never want, and the other 10% I wont use due to already using alternatives. There's just no real compelling reason to get Vista if you're already running XP (for me, anyway).

Well, that's pretty much the main thing there.  There's really no real reason to go out and upgrade, or at least no reason to do so and still justify the cost.   The problem here is Microsoft built a pretty solid OS with XP I guess and then took a page from Apple's book, not realizing that the type of people who get suckered into buying that kind of stuff generally already own Macs.  Combine that with what Que says (for the most part) and it seems apparent they should have waited or at lest tried to sell it on the perceived previous weakness of XP - security.

I wouldn't pay for it, but I leave it on my laptop because there's no benefits to be had from stepping down to XP for me.

[Xessive]

Most of the people on there are just like Que said "... idiots with no actual reason to dislike the OS, who just parrot what other people say."

As much as I'd like to support them, they "hate" Vista for all the wrong reasons.

The part that bugs me is the reactions are all like Microsoft just cured Cancer! Like they found the Philosopher's Stone of OS development! Reactions like "I need an upgrade and that looks like everything I would need!" made no sense to me! What the Hell were they looking at?? It's essentially the same as XP but with a shiny interface! Were these people living on DOS before they showed them Vista?? And when the big secret is revealed they're like "Vista! Wow!" And you know that in their minds they're thinking "WTF is all this stuff anyway? Windows What? I just need a computer so I can type! I need to do my laundry today.."

I'm not a huge supporter of Apple but these are exactly the people who need to be using Macs.

I agree with you all. Whatever benefit Vista has it's not worth the price tag of a new OS. Frankly, it's hardly worth the effort and time it would take to format and install Vista. If I buy a laptop that comes with Vista, fine, I won't bitch about it.. It's like getting it for free.

The argument now is Microsoft have not given me (and many other XP users) reason to migrate to Vista.

[Cobra951]

Idol played the trump card, I think.  What dooms XP in the long run is the memory limit of the widely supported 32-bit OS.  The 64-bit XP is sort of a dead end at this point, isn't it?  For now, most of us can live with a 3-GB limit just fine, especially if we don't go to Vista.

[scottws]

Idol played the trump card, I think.  What dooms XP in the long run is the memory limit of the widely supported 32-bit OS.  The 64-bit XP is sort of a dead end at this point, isn't it?  For now, most of us can live with a 3-GB limit just fine, especially if we don't go to Vista.

Yes, from what I understand, XP x64 has very little in the way of driver support.  Vista on the other hand has nearly equal support for both the x86 and x64 versions.

[MysterD]

A better "Mojave Experiment" would be tossing Vista somewhere never to be found in the middle of the fuckin' Mojave Desert.

[Quemaqua]

Haha, D made a funny!  Nice!

[Xessive]

A better "Mojave Experiment" would be tossing Vista somewhere never to be found in the middle of the fuckin' Mojave Desert.

Haha good one MyD

[MysterD]

Thanks Que and Xessive.