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The Inquisitr: Bizarre: CNet writer claims that Windows 7 must have geek support or else

  • boe · 10 months ago
    I disagree with your take and agree that geeks do indeed impact MS. The geeks are the ones who decide what goes on corporate desktops. If your IT department says we're sticking with XP because Vista sucks - what do you suppose that home PC buyer is going to want on their home PC. If the IT department says Vista is too slow or MS should have listened to beta users and they could have had a good product - what do you suppose MS should have done.

    While OSX is a very good OS and clearly mac market share is increasing after the fiasco that was Vista, since it doesn't even have 20% market share - clearly the corporate market dictates what the consumer market is as well.
  • Syonix · 8 months ago
    You are %110 correct sir.
    I am a certified geek, and i have dozens of people who buy or not buy pc products based on what i tell them
    Guess what, They are ALL still using XP.. why.. not because they saw vista, because I saw vista, and it sucked.
    wake up.
  • Owen · 10 months ago
    Networking theory contradicts your arguments. While people do indeed network and share their opinions, but everything filters through nodes in any network, and these nodes are mostly geeks. Not the high level geeks writing online articles, just the ones who talk to each other and everybody else. This occurs in any network, especially in social networks, and the wise marketing man should know this and exploit it.
  • Ed · 10 months ago
    Geeks or not, Vista fails because at the end of the day, what is important to people is the applications. Microsoft never shows a follow-up interview with those featured in the Mojave Experiment, when they moved back to XP after their favorite app didn't work, or they tried it on their current PC and found it didn't have enough horsepower.

    Certainly many, if not most early reviews come from geeks. To the non-geek user, playing with beta software is just not a priority. But frankly, we see many products that stay in geekland, without widespread consumer adoption, even with glowing reviews. Many geeks love Linux, but find they need to run Windows. Why? Its the applications that are important, not the OS. If an application doesn't run, or runs exceedingly slow, then no amount of hype, geek or otherwise, can counter the needs of the consumer.