Titoist Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 The department store I work for has an electronics section where a few of my buddies are working. They have been having this Windows 7 promotion for the past week. Last night I was told that there have been 0 pre-orders and most customers that inquired about it had a negative view of it. He sais hes had quite a few customers coming in and claiming that Windows 7 is worse than Vista/XP. Theres even been a customer demanding the promotion cease due to "Microsoft blatantly copying OSX and just calling it 7". Just out of curiosity, where are these people getting their information. The same thing happend with Vista BEFORE it was even revealed to the public. Like I know that all the tech savvy people like 7, most of them even liked Vista (havent met a computer enthusiast yet who has had problems with Vista), but then here come the others who don't even have legitimate access to the software, claiming its crap. Whats going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun N. Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 No idea, I imagine it would be word of mouth. Have they actually tried the software? P.S its nothing like OSX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazuyette Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 What's going on ? General Stupidity ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omganinja Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/windows...rd-ousts-harry/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Dick Montage Subscriber² Posted October 22, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted October 22, 2009 Idiots tend to say idiotic things they have heard from other idiots. No news here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmatic Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 i dont think that would count as 'general public' , probably just some obsessed apple fans or something.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vykranth Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Word of mouth or a father's, brother's, nephew's, cousin's former rommate who works with computers has said Windows Seven is bad or non-technical reviews by incompetent journalists who are copying/pasting the first blog they found after searching "Windows reviews". Non-tech people get their opinion with untrusted sources who jump on the bandwagon of Microsoft's tarnished image. That's what Mojave demonstrated: most people who bashes Vista did not use it themselves. I have read reviews of Windows Vista in an economy magazine. It's rather normal because Windows is a product used by so many people in everyday life that it was bound to happen. Sadly, the article was written with the same crap sprouted in Vista sucks blogs. In the end, I concluded that, if their financial articles were as good as their operating system review, I should search for financial advice in Vogue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUTZIFER Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 All I can do is... lol!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intersect Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 gota remember guy we "will never find the show desktop button" as quoted by a BBC "tech Expert" maby thats why it suxs LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voidpharoh Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 For the most part it's just people spreading things via word of mouth. Most of them have probably never actually sat down with the OS at all. I've noticed a lot of "average joe" people when they talk about technology are simply misinformed by their friends/coworkers/family/untrustworthy websites; and they turn right around and open their mouth spewing a dreadful mix of truths and misinformation to the next person they talk to about it. Instead of sitting down and doing their own personal research on the topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorbing Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 The department store I work for has an electronics section where a few of my buddies are working. They have been having this Windows 7 promotion for the past week. Last night I was told that there have been 0 pre-orders and most customers that inquired about it had a negative view of it. He sais hes had quite a few customers coming in and claiming that Windows 7 is worse than Vista/XP. Theres even been a customer demanding the promotion cease due to "Microsoft blatantly copying OSX and just calling it 7". Just out of curiosity, where are these people getting their information. The same thing happend with Vista BEFORE it was even revealed to the public. Like I know that all the tech savvy people like 7, most of them even liked Vista (havent met a computer enthusiast yet who has had problems with Vista), but then here come the others who don't even have legitimate access to the software, claiming its crap. Whats going on? They need to have their brain checked. Windows 7 is a hell of a whole lot faster than Vista will ever be. It is a huge improvement over Vista. I think they are nothing but a bunch of morons who are probably still running Windows 95 at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmatic Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 That's what Mojave demonstrated: most people who bashes Vista did not use it themselves. thats a good point... perhaps your store ought to do a little mojave experiment of its own? dont show the title 'windows 7' , but just the actual desktop etc with a bunch of windows open, and leave it outside for people to play around with... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted October 22, 2009 Veteran Share Posted October 22, 2009 Theres even been a customer demanding the promotion cease due to "Microsoft blatantly copying OSX and just calling it 7". Was he wearing a black t-shirt with jeans? :shifty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krome Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Here is my take on Windows 7. First of all, I have used Vista for almost 2 years now. The fact is, I still dislike Vista. I was thinking of going back to XP but now there's Windows 7. So I will give it a try. Now let's move on to what I think about Windows 7. People had asked me, and I told them that supposedly, it's Vista on steroid. I told them Windows 7 looks and feels are very similar to Vista 'cept that Windows 7 is much more stable (presumably). Told them that many of the computer tech-savvy been praising a lot about Windows 7. As for my personal reference on Windows 7, since I didn't have a decent system, I would prefer XP for now. My system spec for the time being is: Asus P5ND32-SLi 775, Pentium D 3.4Gz EMT64 + HyperThread 3GB of RAM and a Raptor. Yet I have a bit of tough time on processor's resource hog on Vista in comparison to XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n3ptun3 Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 lol fail, around here W7 pre orders have been huge! Pretty much everyone I know is moving from either XP or Vista to 7, and most of them are not tech savvy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migo Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Anyone saying they're copying OS X is just a Mac fanboy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majortom1981 Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 This wouldnt happen to be an apple store is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_c_b Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 I'm not buying this, I'm a pretty big Apple fan and even I'm very impressed with 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey B. Veteran Posted October 22, 2009 Veteran Share Posted October 22, 2009 i would venture to say that the widely available beta/rc testing might have something to do with it. You have many many people that are "trying" the new OS before it comes out using computers that do not even support the minimum specs (even though 7 does work much better on legacy hardware) and they are deaming it that OS's fault that it is running poorly when in fact you cannot take the newest greatest thing and put it on your Gateway 2000 from 1997 it just isn't going to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 The department store I work for has an electronics section where a few of my buddies are working. They have been having this Windows 7 promotion for the past week. Last night I was told that there have been 0 pre-orders and most customers that inquired about it had a negative view of it. He sais hes had quite a few customers coming in and claiming that Windows 7 is worse than Vista/XP. Theres even been a customer demanding the promotion cease due to "Microsoft blatantly copying OSX and just calling it 7". Just out of curiosity, where are these people getting their information. The same thing happend with Vista BEFORE it was even revealed to the public. Like I know that all the tech savvy people like 7, most of them even liked Vista (havent met a computer enthusiast yet who has had problems with Vista), but then here come the others who don't even have legitimate access to the software, claiming its crap. Whats going on? The department store you work at has incredibly stupid customers. Sites like amazon have had record preorders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorbing Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 I'm not buying this, I'm a pretty big Apple fan and even I'm very impressed with 7. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trong Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 I thought this was a real news article for a second! :p Each to their own, but Windows 7 is not an OS X copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyDX Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 General Fail would be a better description of this. All PC users I know like Win7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forster Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 ....who don't even have legitimate access to the software, claiming its crap. Whats going on? People are retarded. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATLien_0 Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Ive showed 7 to a lot of people this week and all in all the response has been great.The fact that 7 runs better on my 5 year old laptop than XP did on it originally is a good sign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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