7/25/2008

Perception is reality
Filed under: Computing, Technology — nobrainer @ 11:06 am

I’ve definitely not upgraded my PC to Vista; I have little need to. Although I have been, and remain, curious about Vista given that I simply haven’t used it. The commentary about it has been overwhelmingly negative, but I’ve always had a sense that people were saying bad things about it because other people said bad things about it. Herd mentality strikes again! But Microsoft may have come up with a clever way to work around and start changing those impressions:

Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a “new” operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that “Mojave” was actually Windows Vista.

“Oh wow,” said one user, eliciting exactly the exclamation that Microsoft had hoped to garner when it first released the operating system more than 18 months ago. Instead, the operating system got mixed reviews and criticisms for its lack of compatibility and other headaches.

Good luck to them.

collapse Bear Says:
July 25th, 2008 at 11:53 am

On the right machine Vista is great.

My HP laptop running Vista is my favorite computer ever. And I agree with the herd mentality. People love to blame Vista for everything and call it the next ME. Well, I had a computer running ME and I’ll tell your right now folks, Vista is no ME.

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collapse lawtonfunk Says:
July 25th, 2008 at 12:09 pm

It’s not herd mentality when you’re begging your wife not to throw her new computer threw the wall. I think we just bought it too soon. None of her peripherals worked. The worst was getting the Palm Lifedrive (also brand new) to talk to Vista.

Now that she has it figured out, she doesn’t want to mess with another computer. Not because it’s good, but just to avoid repeating the headache.

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collapse Agent Orange Says:
July 25th, 2008 at 4:48 pm

Dumb it down and take out all the bells and whistles and it runs pretty well. It doesn’t like to play nice with XP on networks at times and microsoft changed some things that they didn’t need to in appearance (like the network monitor just tells you that the connection is good and doesn’t tell you speeds.) their search function out of the start menu is pretty cool though.

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