Seeing might actually be the biggest problem in proving the point. Microsoft is very tight lipped about the experiment itself and the preview page that was up until earlier today mentioned a ten minute demonstration from a sales person on a 2 Gigabyte Intel Core Duo 2.2 Ghz HP computer.

Now that the website is up and running users can view short clips, really short ones from normal people who participated in the experiment. The website holds little information but at least a user breakdown. About 84% of the users are Windows XP users, 22% Apple OS users, 14% use other Microsoft Windows operating systems and 1% Linux. It seems that some users are accustomed to more than one operating system.

Some videos show that one person is actually demonstrating features of the “Mojave” operating system to the users, for example photo stitching that takes pictures and creates a panorama out of those photos.

That’s probably a very good way of getting the “wow” effect from people first by showing them nice features on fast hardware and then again by telling them that they did see Vista and not a super duper new Microsoft operating system.

It does however fail to cover important aspects of Vista criticism like that it is running extremely slow on older hardware even if the computer was purchased with Windows Vista or incompatibilities that still exist.

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A process that is happening weekly throughout the country but this time with a twist that puts most psychological experiments to shame. Windows Mojave was Windows Vista. The same product. The critics did not seem to realize and apparently loved the new operating system. More than 90% gave positive feedback on the operating system which is incredible if you consider that all gave negative feedback about the same product earlier on.

I would like to point out one thing that has to be considered though. The computer running Windows Mojave was surely a top notch state of the art PC while the previous negative experience with Windows Vista might be related to the computer it was installed on.

Vista demands faster hardware than Windows XP does to run properly and users cope with that situation by disabling certain features that make Vista look prettier than the default XP.

It’s still an interesting experiment. One could say that many users criticize Windows Vista without having used it for a longer period in which they were able to really experience the operating system. It’s strange that most critics did not discover that they were reviewing the same product.

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