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Loading ...Ok, so the ‘wow’ didn’t exactly happen in quite the way Microsoft hoped but are we all being a little too harsh on Windows Vista? Microsoft certainly thinks so. It’s set out to prove that, if we just gave Vista a chance, we’d all be ditching XP and Windows 2000 quicker than you can say ‘blue screen of death’.
It’s set up a little experiment, inviting 120 (presumably anti-Vista) Mac, Linux, XP and Windows 2000 heads to try out the ‘next’ version of Windows, codenamed ‘Mojave’.
Presumably imagining that Microsoft had been hard at work producing the OS it should have done the first time round, 90% of the participants were said to be impressed. But there’s a catch. Microsoft hadn’t done any tweaking, in fact it had just presented a debranded version of Vista.
Oh, and before you ask, it wasn’t running on a quad-core, twin GPU, 4GB RAM machine either, just a plain old HP Pavilion DV 2000 with 2GB RAM under the hood.
So does this prove we’d all really love Vista if we got over our preconceptions or will it take more than some viral marketing to get you to switch from XP or Mac OS? Have a look for yourself when the video goes live tomorrow.
Source: mobilecomputermag
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