80x86 Assembly language, C/C++, C#.

"A low level MSDOS programming in Windows 2k"??? What are you talking about? Can you please try to re-phrase your question above?

You can't read. Right? I never stated that XP and 2k have a different core. Both are NT 5.x systems. So on "core" level they are really same.

"Microsoft has managed to prove that if you have a friendly expert on a controlled machine (with Vista pre-installed) showing a carefully selected subset of Vista features to an ignorant XP user for a few minutes, the XP user will often say he finds Vista acceptable. Wow."

http://wilshipley.com/blog/2008/07/m...ience-bad.html

Explains the reasons why the 'experiment' is flawed in 4 different ways.

Regardless of the clear and obvious fact that the Mojave Experiment isn't a 100% scientifically accurate "experiment" and leans more on the side of being a marketing ploy, every "experiment" is controlled to a certain degree. What is implied on that blog involves a jaded interpretation and a snide overreaction that doesn't fit what MS set out to do.

He sounds like just another blogger who took things a bit too "personal", despite his occasional "smoothing things over" with a compliment or two. The Mojave strategy clearly accomplished its mission with the participants. It took persons who were anti-Vista and got them to, at the very least, consider trying it further.

THAT is a success! THAT is exactly what MS should be doing to counteract the hasty judgments of a tech industry that has become far too cynical when it comes to Microsoft for its own good.

Also, the blogger's arguments for users "hacking together their machines and then expecting their software to work" doesn't stand solid in the face of Microsoft's specific HCL and SCL. Microsoft is tightening the reins (especially in terms of security) regarding what their software runs on and what software runs on top of it. It was only a logical step given the potential security nightmare that is Windows XP.

The last argument about having an expert tutor is invalid because that is exactly what Microsoft has made available online. Anyone can go to Vista's website and virtually test drive all of the features, plus find thousands of pages of info on how to efficiently and effectively use Vista. Plus, you can't expect Microsoft to have "Microsoft stores" because of the obvious monopoly cry that would ensue and the limitless variations in system component configurations.

Despite it all though, the campaign is getting people talking. Hopefully people at this point will see the venom spewed against Microsoft for what it really is and give them credit and support for moving in the right direction.

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