{"id":110,"date":"2008-08-11T16:10:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=110"},"modified":"2008-10-05T09:43:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T15:43:36","slug":"oh-my-they-persuaded-me-im-installing-windows-vista-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Oh my! They persuaded me, I&#8217;m installing Windows Vista Now&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the new campaign that Microsoft launched, they are such tricky champs, Oh my! They persuaded me, I&#8217;m installing Windows Vista Now&#8230; NOT!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mojaveexperiment.com\/\">http:\/\/www.mojaveexperiment.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mean, could you refute the lack of excitement these &#8216;test subjects&#8217; showed. After all they didn&#8217;t even touch the workstation for what I could see, and the whole test was more of a presentation or non-hands-on demo. If you add a rattling noise or a cricket at any point when they&#8217;re made aware it is Vista what they&#8217;re experiencing, it could not have been more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I think they should think about naming their experiments and the outcome carefully. Or some may say &#8220;The Mojave Experiment was a success, it feels arid, not much too see or feel there, Vista will leave you feeling like you&#8217;re&#8230; in a desert.<\/p>\n<p>And I am not alone with this sentiment of failure, read this post at Microsoft Watch: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft-watch.com\/content\/marketing\/why_the_mojave_experiment_fails.html\">Why the Mojave Experiment Fails<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the new campaign that Microsoft launched, they are such tricky champs, Oh my! They persuaded me, I&#8217;m installing Windows Vista Now&#8230; NOT! http:\/\/www.mojaveexperiment.com\/ I mean, could you refute the lack of excitement these &#8216;test subjects&#8217; showed. After all they didn&#8217;t even touch the workstation for what I could see, and the whole test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}