Filed under: Peripherals

What do people think of Windows Vista when they learn more about some of its features? To find out, we located three people who had been living in a cave around the time of the massive advertising campaign at Vista’s launch and started out by asking them what they thought of Windows Vista.

Subject 1: “My niece was looking up something for her nutritional science class and went to this Web site called apple.com. There were a lot of videos there that said Vista was bad.”

Subject 2: “I’ve heard that Windows Vista gives you scabies.”

Subject 3: “Four of my friends on the American Online forwarded me an email that said Bill Gates would give me $10 million if I would tell my friends to buy Windows Vista and he didn’t. It must stink.”

Then we told them about some of the great hardware that Windows Vista supports.

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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

You may have heard that Microsoft is “like, totally serious, guys” about patching up Vista’s good name, and, well, so far they’re off to a rocky start. After pushing up a few lackluster web ads, they’ve decided to trick users en masse to prove a point. They’ve termed the Punk’ing the “Mojave Experiment,” which placed 120 regular computer users of all different OS persuasions in front of a Vista box, except they were told they were getting to look at the next Microsoft OS, codenamed “Mojave.” Results of the test will be unveiled tomorrow in what are sure to be glowing customer reports. Scientific validity of this test aside, we’re not exactly sure testimonials from a blind taste test are going to turn the tide of Vista ill-will, but now we’re starting to sound like Demi Moore our parents.

[Via Techdirt]

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