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The Mojave Experiment

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I know, the title sounds like the new J.J. Abrams movie... but it is not. In fact, it's something much funnier. I also know that this is not hot news, but hey, i'm on holidays!

Everybody has heard things about Windows Vista, and probably most of those were bad stuff. In my opinion (there will be a post about it) Vista is a good O.S. I've been using it for almost a year, before & after the famous first service pack, and my personal opinion is that it works like a charm, even running Crysis

So, what is the Mojave experiment? Basically, some users who HATED vista had the chance to try out the new Windows version, codenamed Mojave. After some time working with it, they were asked their opinion, first about vista and then about Mojave.

The results of the interviews were awesome: People loved Mojave, and they thought it was much better than Vista. Thing is, as you have probably heard by now, that they had been using Vista all time long.

So with this experiment, Microsoft proves that there's too many people criticizing Vista without having even seen it.

Friday night I was talking with a good friend (a Linux guru, by the way) who pointed that people had a bad perception of Vista because of its interface. Notice that XP is out in the streets since 2001, meaning that we, the users, have been working with the same interface all this time. Moving to Vista requires a major change in our everyday work (those working with computers), that not everybody is ready / capable to accept.

Most Linux distros update and change their interfaces every six months, approximately. Obviously, changes are not so drastic as between XP and Vista, but they are considerable. I think that open source users are more prepared than only-Windows users when they have to face these "problems".

Here you can find the web of the experiment. Check it out, it's really interesting... and funny.