Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment - Fact Or Fiction?

Back on July 24th, 2008, I wrote about what is best described as the Mojave experiment , in which Microsoft tested Vista using the Mojave code name, to see the reactions of participants who were alleged anti-Vista people. These people were in ’shcok and awe’ when they learned that Mojave was really Vista. So yesterday I received this email asking this question:

Heh Ron, 

I read your story about Microsoft’s Mojave and just had one question. Knowing Micrsoft’s reputation, how do we really know that these were real people and not shills? 

Good question. But how do we really know that anything that we read on the Internet is for real or not? Sometimes we just need to do things on faith. But we also have to be cautious on what we read and how we interrupt the facts.

What do you think? Was what Microsoft did with Mojave real or not?

Comments welcome.