Microsoft have launched a site called the Mojave Experience and the views on it have been quite wide ranging.

From comparing it to the Milgram experiments in the 60's.
To being critical of people who aren't tech savvy enough to use Vista
To what if Apple had done it
To why did they use Flash for it rather than Silverlight
and a whole load in between

On the whole I think that the Microsoft marketing team were trying to do a good thing and demonstrate that a lot of the feelings about Vista were based on hearsay rather than experience of using it.

Yes I agree that you can make a number of things look better than they actually are in a demo, just ask most start ups, but they have included some videos of people who picked that what they were looking at was Vista.

Personally I'm a Vista user and find it OK. As with most OS's there are some good and some bad bits my team enjoy nothing more than watching me struggle with one of our Linux or OS X test boxes. I don't complain about it I see them as other operating systems in the market that as web professionals we need to be aware of and build solutions which work well on them. I just don't use them every day so will always be a little slower on them and not know all the things they can do. I'm sure that if somebody showed me a top notch demo of Vista I'd hardly recognise some of it either.

Maybe Microsoft should go the whole hog and provide a copy of Vista and a video camera to 100 people and get them to record what they think of their first month of using Vista. I doubt they will.

Full disclosure Microsoft is a client.

Tags: Mojave Experiment, Microsoft, Flash, Silverlight, Vista