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Monday 28 July 2008, 2:16 AM
Microsoft's way of improving Vista
Had a great laugh today when reading:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1453
Having Vista installed on my laptop I wonder why they are putting so many millions in an advertising campaign proving Vista isn't that bad...
Looks to me they could have done a much better job by spending these millions to improve the product instead of trying to manipulate the consumers opinion by using ads...
- Now I'm bothered weekly (sometimes even daily) with an OS that's refusing to close as there are updates to be installed. (Highest count until now was 7 updates in one go)
- Now I'm bothered by having to "raise" the OS to Administrator level for each program I install (even those created by MS).
- ...
I won't continue this list as every Vista user can add many other annoying samples about Vista.
Am I surprised by this action? Not at all. It's "The American way of life". All that counts is the "outside" created by advertising companies and fast boys wanting to make many $$'s, regardless of the quality of a product.
What does surprise me is the fact that customers accept this type of behavior. When someone buys a car and it's not functioning as described in the manual, they will insist that it's corrected. (Even better, car manufacturers call back cars when they find a serious design flaw....)
But faulty MS software is accepted and no one even objects when MS states in their knowledge base "This is a known error, but be won't (can't?) correct this".
Do we forget that we (and/or our boss) pay hundreds of euro's for a faulty product that's now enabling MS to start a millions of dollars costing advertising campaign to show Vista "is not that bad" "?
Guess it's the same "American way of life" strategy used at Experts Exchange. The site was "improved" by spending thousands of dollars to look as "glassy" as Vista, but the response time is worse as the old version and there's still no initiative to improve the quality of the answers. Only the "Cleaning up" effort is propagated to keep the experts addicted to the expert point system.
The fact that "top experts" are posting "do it yourself" links and are allowed to post copyrighted material without a reference does show that only the $$ are of interest and in that way they are acting very similar as Microsoft.
Nic;o)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1453
Having Vista installed on my laptop I wonder why they are putting so many millions in an advertising campaign proving Vista isn't that bad...
Looks to me they could have done a much better job by spending these millions to improve the product instead of trying to manipulate the consumers opinion by using ads...
- Now I'm bothered weekly (sometimes even daily) with an OS that's refusing to close as there are updates to be installed. (Highest count until now was 7 updates in one go)
- Now I'm bothered by having to "raise" the OS to Administrator level for each program I install (even those created by MS).
- ...
I won't continue this list as every Vista user can add many other annoying samples about Vista.
Am I surprised by this action? Not at all. It's "The American way of life". All that counts is the "outside" created by advertising companies and fast boys wanting to make many $$'s, regardless of the quality of a product.
What does surprise me is the fact that customers accept this type of behavior. When someone buys a car and it's not functioning as described in the manual, they will insist that it's corrected. (Even better, car manufacturers call back cars when they find a serious design flaw....)
But faulty MS software is accepted and no one even objects when MS states in their knowledge base "This is a known error, but be won't (can't?) correct this".
Do we forget that we (and/or our boss) pay hundreds of euro's for a faulty product that's now enabling MS to start a millions of dollars costing advertising campaign to show Vista "is not that bad" "?
Guess it's the same "American way of life" strategy used at Experts Exchange. The site was "improved" by spending thousands of dollars to look as "glassy" as Vista, but the response time is worse as the old version and there's still no initiative to improve the quality of the answers. Only the "Cleaning up" effort is propagated to keep the experts addicted to the expert point system.
The fact that "top experts" are posting "do it yourself" links and are allowed to post copyrighted material without a reference does show that only the $$ are of interest and in that way they are acting very similar as Microsoft.
Nic;o)
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