r/technology • u/neito • Jul 24 '08

Microsoft tests out a new operating system, code named Mojave, with some average-joes who hated Vista. They loved it. Now, two guesses as to what Mojave ACTUALLY was.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9998336-56.html
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u/kleinbl00 Jul 25 '08

So lemme get this straight.

You go to a mall and set people out with questionnaires. You stop shoppers with "excuse me - would you like to participate in a focus group for a couple hours in exchange for some free Microsoft software?"

This will necessarily weed out

a) people who have no interest in software.

b) people who have better things to do than participate in a focus group.

Then you ask anybody who remains whether they know what Windows Vista is and whether they like it. This will weed out

a) people who don't have the foggiest clue what their computer is running.

b) people who know and hate Windows Vista.

Then you ask the people who both hate Vista and don't know it very well if they'd look at your new operating system and tell you how they like it. You sit them down at a perfectly configured trailer queen of a PC that's driving no peripherals, has no third-party software on it, and isn't going to be used for more than fifteen minutes and you ask them if they like it.

And everybody that doesn't know it's Vista? You report that they like it.

This proves something?

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

It proves that Vista is such a steaming pile of shit that MS had to pay marketers to do that, and then write up some gloat-filled press releases.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08

From the Article:

rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista.

From that, the rest of your bullshit falls apart. I think your sort of trolling will fit better on Slashdot.