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As men­tioned here and many, many other places, Vista has taken quite a beat­ing since its launch. At times, it seems that the weight of neg­a­tive opin­ion means that Vista is doomed to fail­ure (prompt­ing reports that Microsoft might sim­ply move on and focus on Win­dows 7). But is the per­cep­tion accurate?

Enter the Mojave Exper­i­ment. Get a bunch of Vista refuseniks in a room, show them ‘the lat­est Win­dows oper­at­ing sys­tem’ code­named Win­dows Mojave and film their reac­tions. Then tell them they’ve just expe­ri­enced Vista.

Now of course this will be a fresh install on a pretty tricked out machine but as a way of coun­ter­ing the neg­a­tive per­cep­tion it’s pretty good. Now, if only they cre­ated this a year back before the anti-vista avalanche gained so much power and sup­ported it with a whole range of grass roots activ­ity I think it would have had more of a chance.

And, of course, the sense of hav­ing to be suck­ered to get the mes­sage doesn’t gen­er­ally go down well – it took just 2 days for this spoof out-takes video to be posted in response.

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