Deserved or not, the Windows Vista operating system gets a poor rap. But Microsoft’s recent effort to repair Vista’s reputation did not win any rave reviews, either.

Last week Microsoft posted videos at MojaveExperiment.com of a analysis involving about 140 randomly chosen computer users who had low opinions of Vista. These users had no experience with it, so they were shown what was said to be the company’s new operating system, called Mojave. In nearly all the cases, they liked

At the end, they were told that Mojave was really Vista.

The videos show the shocked reaction. “Wow, really?” many of them said.

On the Web, however, many technology bloggers had a different reaction. “Microsoft thinks you’re stupid” was the heading of a blog entry on the site of the Canadian magazine Maclean’s. The blogger, Colin Campbell, wrote that “Microsoft seems to be shifting blame for its […]

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