Microsoft: Stodgy or Innovative? It’s All About Perception
“But Microsoft needs to address the perception problem, which runs deep and could have repercussions on sales of future products if the company doesn’t manage to fix it. Executives showed just how real the problem is by running a brief video collected during a recent customer study conducted by the company. Microsoft chose people for the study who continue to use XP and who said that they weren’t interested in upgrading to Vista because of its bad reputation. Microsoft offered to show the people the next version of the operating system to see if they might be interested in it when it comes out.
The people loved the future version and said they’d definitely upgrade. Then they learned that the software they loved was actually Vista, not some future version of the operating system.”
I have to deal with this crap every single day. I read somewhere that MS fixes bug on Windows and put it available to the customers faster than Apple. Some where else I saw a article comparing web browsers and Fox lost badly to IE. I commented tows articles with my colleagues and they didn’t even bother to check it out. One specificaly really believe that Apple does bug-free software. This guy is particularly funny because the software he does himself is pure crap!