See here. Microsoft plays evil practical joke on potential customers, then humiliates them with online video. Fantastic!
Borg's Mojave experiment
Posted by Dan Lyons on Aug 23, 2008 in Tech | 43 comments
Posted by Dan Lyons on Aug 23, 2008 in Tech | 43 comments
See here. Microsoft plays evil practical joke on potential customers, then humiliates them with online video. Fantastic!
Where are all the commebtards today?
One thought. Vista will be impressive when demonstrated in it’s ultimate release model on hardware set up to run it fast and that has been well tested (as would have been the case here). Most of the complaints are when it’s on hardware not up to spec.
All this demonstrates is a known cognitive bias that has been thoroughly documented by research psychologists. If microsoft thinks brand perception is the root of vista’s problems, they are delusional. Keep up the ugly, ugly marketing gimmicks ballmer, maybe you can teach us new reasons to hate your company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_perception (not exactly what i’m referring to, but close)
Very pretty.
Now tell me, where can I trade Vista in for Mojave?
[and happy 23rd, x23 you know who]
what i love is that hilarious little “mooooo …. jaaaaaa …. veeee…” song playing under, especially after the reveal, as if the singers both in the tv commercials and on the ms website are mocking them. mocking, do you hear me? mock, mock, mock!! mu ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha …!!
wow Dan, you need to get on the pulse… this has been kicking around for months…
Suppose they had tested Sahara, printed a great little book (you can see the Mojave book in the ads), and took some selected folks through a hand-held tour.
Could they get 5 or 10 positive reactions?
Does Steve Jobs wear black shirts?
And one more thing, if this were an experiment – really – there would be some opinions besides “Wow, it’s fantastic. I want Mojave now!”
But there were not. (In the ads, anyway.)
suppositio.us
ps- 1) I’d like to buy “Gobi” as an operating system
2) their experiment is much like “Vegas,” located in the Mojave.
3) So what? So people will say anything?
4) MadDog: it’s a viable issue that MS is willing to cheat and lie and steal, but not to really work at anything. And worrisome. Promote instead of fix, design, and build. Bad trend.
“Where are all the commebtards today?”
Upset! They’re upset with me, and I can’t blame them. Biden? What was I thinking? That’s it, I have to stop lay off the drugs. See kids, you do drugs, you make stupid, stupid choices.
I campaign and campaign about change. Change! I’ll bring change! I drop some acid, and suddenly I pick old white guy. Frak me!
This is clearly what I get for selling my soul to Satan earlier. I want the nomination, and the price I paid was Biden. Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!
- Barry
So where is the rock you’ve been hiding under? I want to find that place.
barry/fbo —
nah, don’t worry about the biden choice. he’s known for saying the honest crap and putting his foot in it and taking the bullet like no one else. he’s your new wesley clark, to say stupid shit like being a p.o.w. in viet nam does not qualify you to lead. hawr! i’m still rolling on how you planted that one in clark’s dentures. biden will be the cute buy naughty old dog that pisses on the carpet leaving you to come in, flash those lovely pearly whites, and come off looking like a prince. gotta love the strategy. hats off to you, my man. or should i say, the presumptive mr. president?
Am I supposed to be shocked. I grew up in Seattle and watched the the whole saga unfold. I lifted the following off the net to refresh my memory. I take no credit for penning this, but it exhibits the “blood in the water” behavior of MS.
In 1980, IBM first approached Bill Gates and Microsoft, to discuss the state of home computers and Microsoft products. Gates gave IBM a few ideas on what would make a great home computer, among them to have Basic written into the ROM chip. Microsoft had already produced several versions of Basic for different computer system beginning with the Altair, so Gates was more than happy to write a version for IBM.
As for an operating system (OS) for the new computers, since Microsoft had never written an operating system before, Gates had suggested that IBM investigate an OS called CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers), written by Gary Kildall of Digital Research. Kindall had his Ph.D. in computers and had written the most successful operating system of the time, selling over 600,000 copies of CP/M, his OS set the standard at that time.
IBM tried to contact Kildall for a meeting, executives met with Mrs. Kildall who refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement. IBM soon returned to Bill Gates and gave Microsoft the contract to write the new operating system, one that would eventually wipe Kildall’s CP/M out of common use.
The “Microsoft Disk Operating System” or MS-DOS was based on QDOS, the “Quick and Dirty Operating System” written by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, for their prototype Intel 8086 based computer.
QDOS was based on Gary Kildall’s CP/M, Paterson had bought a CP/M manual and used it as the basis to write his operating system in six weeks, QDOS was different enough from CP/M to be considered legal.
Microsoft bought the rights to QDOS for $50,000, keeping the IBM deal a secret from Seattle Computer Products.
Gates then talked IBM into letting Microsoft retain the rights, to market MS DOS separate from the IBM PC project, Gates proceeded to make a fortune from the licensing of MS-DOS.
In 1981, Tim Paterson quit Seattle Computer Products and found employment at Microsoft.
Did anyone actually click on some of the videos and see what features these Windoze retards were so excited about? Almost everything mentioned is implemented better in the Mac OS.
Wow! I’m so impressed that with Mojave I can use my photos on the desktop or that I can do 3-D switching between applications. Jeez, what a crock of crap. I’d like to see Microsoft invite in some REAL Vista users or some CIO’s and ask them to comment.
::drawing a giant “0″ on a large pad-o-paper:::
So, the problem with Vista isn’t really the O/S, it’s how consumers perceive the O/S? Sounds like blaming the victim to me.
Well, I’ve always been told that most problems with a computer lie between the keyboard and the chair.
That damn piece of ergonomically correct foam!
*tosses foam out the window*
- Barry
@ FBO
You forgot that magical place between the ears which often causes computer problems. Don’t throw it out though. Refresh. Reboot.
Yummy, where do I get my copy.
I am sure that they play FULLY with the OS?
what did they get to look at the web, and get email?
huuuuummmmm, coke, new coke, CLASSIC COKE (XP).
they where probably looking at XP.
What I want to know is whether Bono is using Mac or Windows for rehashing the old songs to be released soon.
@SamG
I can’t find anything there. I stuck a q-tip in to make sure, and it came out clean.
Очень познавательно. Спасибо.
а-а, спасибо )
Hey guess what, a bunch of unemployed idiots who respond to surveys during business hours in order to make some extra cash (OF COURSE I MAKE OVER $200K AND DRIVE A RANGE ROVER) think that Vista running on awesome PC’s they can’t afford isn’t as bad as Vista running on shitty PC’s they can afford. Hooray for Borg!
Why do 66% of your commentards write just like you?
hmmmmm
Hey, check out one of my newest videos, a spoof of Microsoft’s infamous Mojave Experiment!
Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pi7fkH2ZHQ
Thanks
Восхитительно..
тема реально старая
“Отличный пост”
“Мне все понравилось”
хм…ну это памойму уже крайность…
Большое спасибо! Есть ещё повод получить удовольствие… С вашего разрешения, беру.
“Мало кто может похвастаться такой смекалкой, как у автора”
“Блог в ридер однозначно”
мне нра) хорошая идея.
Это должно быть в цитатнике
Большое спасибо! Есть ещё повод получить удовольствие… С вашего разрешения, беру.
Шикарно, возьму в дневник
вот это позитив) просто класс)
Привет тебе, о мой друг!
“Прямо даже не верится”
tnk
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