So, Microsoft tries to save Vista by showing people "Mojave" - Vista disguised as a new operating system. After they say they like what they have seen, they learn it was really Vista. So now they like Vista. Amazing.
The problem is, the product those people like really is Mojave, not Vista. Mojave is Vista with an individual, customized, one-to-one orientation class and demo by an expert. In the videos at the Mojave site, you can see the expert showing features, teaching people how things work, and answering questions. Knowing the way market research works, it is reasonable to assume people were paid to take this class. (Note: the Mojave Experiment is not market research, but it used market research techniques).
There are things to like about Vista. The best thing in my view is that there is finally a usable 64-bit version. One of my favorites is changing the incredibly stupid "Documents and Settings" folder to the Unix-like "Users".
But unless every Vista customer will now be paid to take the same personalized one-on-one lesson, the Mojave fraud proves nothing about how people actually react to Vista. And it only applies to how people feel immediately after a lesson and sales pitch - not after they have been tormented by security alerts, baffled by functions moved around and changed for no good reason, and forced to deal with Vista's incompatibilities and resource hogging.
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