My Review Of The Mojave Experiment

I have always defended Linux as being far better than Windows. But recently in Linux Vs Windows Vista forum threads, pro Windows forum users have been pointing me to the link to something called 'The Mojave Project'. They all say this proves Vista is good. So I decided to take a look. First let's look at the actual site.


The site

The first thing I got asked when I tried to go onto the site was 'Please install Microsoft Silverlight'. After clicking 'load page without Silverlight', nothing happened. I disabled my script blocker, to find out that most of the site was in flash. Why not use HTML? But like Vista, they filled it with unnecessary code, rather than making it operate fast.

The site was slow & full of useless stuff. So I pressed the 'What is the mojave experiment' button. Rather than taking me to a page explaining this, it decided to load up even more flash script to open a transparent box, which had the explanation inside it. Why not just have a new page?

A lot of people told me this site wasn't anything to do with Microsoft. Why does it say 'This site is hosted for Microsoft' at the bottom? Obviously it is.

The site is badly made. Onto the theory of the experiment....


The Mojave Experiment Theory

Ok, so here is the idea. They get Vista & they try to make it look like a different Windows Operating system called 'Mojave'. Then they ask users what they think of Mojave. This experiment is meant to prove whether Vista is actually bad, or people think it is because of what they have heard.

Here is what the site said -
'What do people think of Windows Vista when they don’t know it's Windows Vista? To find out, we disguised it as "the next Microsoft Operating System" codenamed, "Mojave" so regular people who've never used Windows Vista could see what it can do – and decide for themselves.'

OK, first things first. Nobody skilled at computers could of participated in this experiment. This is because nobody skilled at computers would of really believed that there was a new Windows operating system they had never heard of. So I have worked out already, that all the people in this experiment didn't know anything about computers. Now I am going to show why their end results were not too accurate either.


Their statistics

These statistics were made from the end result of the experiment.


'94% of respondents rated the “new OS” codenamed Windows “Mojave” higher than they initially rated Windows Vista before
the demo.'

Hang on a second!
'so regular people who've never used Windows Vista could see what it can do'
They say here that they were users who hadn't used Vista before.... But an earlier explanation of this experiment says that they have already used Vista & they have evaluated it. Two contradictory statements.


'Types of Computer Users participating in the “Mojave Experiment:”

• 84% Windows XP users
• 22% Apple OS users
• 14% Pre-Windows XP users
• 1% Linux users
• Some users use multiple platforms.'

They have missed out a type of user.... The user who actually knows about computers. As I said before, advance users couldn't of been used in this experiment. So this isn't a fair representation of computer users globally. So these statistics are unfair as well.


Their Facts

Which they try to use to advertise Vista. I thought this was an experiment, not an advertising site....


'The phishing filter in Internet Explorer 7 – which is included with Windows Vista – stops about 1 million phishing attempts every week.'

Firefox & Opera have been able to do this for a long time.


'In the first quarter of 2008, Windows Vista had 25% fewer total vulnerabilities than Windows XP SP2.'

SP3 is out now for XP. They're using out of date statistics .
The reason it has less security vulnerabilities is because nobody could be bothered to try to hack Vista, because most people were still on XP. Vista will get hacked more often when it becomes popular.


'In 2007, Windows Vista had half the number of critical vulnerabilities than Windows XP SP2 did during the same period.'

That's because most of Microsoft's programmers were busy fixing Vista's vulnerabilitys, rather than XP's.


'Since Release to Market, the total number of devices and components supported on Windows Vista has more than doubled.
Thousands of the most popular devices and software programs are now compatible with Windows Vista.'

If someone wants compatibility, they will use XP not Vista. There is no doubt that XP is more compatible with hardware & software than Vista.


The Videos

I'm not gonna watch a load of people tell me how great their new Vista start menu is. I could not be bothered to even watch one of them. The funny thing is, The videos on the main page actually have a lot of the same people in it. Three of the videos have images of the same person. This probably means that they couldn't find enough people for the experiment. The fewer people you have for an experiment, the less accurate it will be.

If I could actually be bothered to watch the videos, I would probably find loads more biased infomation.

Conclusion

Call this an experiment?!

It had contradictory statistics,
It had facts that did not matter,
It only used computer begginers for the experiment,
& it is linked to Microsoft, so obviously, it is going to talk about how great Vista is.
Other OSs rock, without having to put unrealistic, commercialised experiments on the net.