Sony vs. Microsoft for the Dumb Award of the Year

It's been easy to ridicule Sony for their missteps these past few years. Now comes Microsoft again, about to introduce their newest operating system, Windows 7. So, how do they advertise it? By using a six-year-old girl. Does anybody remember the fiasco that was BOB?

Worse, after the failure of Vista to catch on because it was so hard to upgrade, the folks at MS give us an operating that cannot be upgraded at all if you're using XP. Right. If you're using XP, and that's most everybody, and you've installed any number of programs that you've personalized and customized, and that's most everybody, you'll have to reinstall every one of them from scratch, because Windows 7 cannot be installed over XP. You have to wipe the hard drive and start all over again from square one.

Can you say "dumb"? It's as if big companies go out of their way to do everything wrong.

John

instead of DUMB i say DUAL BOOT.

They are doing this to push people away from XP (an O/S released in 2001 i might add). Sure their VISTA flaw made many people stick with XP. Windows 7 has a new feature called XP mode. basically its a seamless virtualization environment that will allow you to run ANY program that possibly cant run on 7 (Most stuff works on seven, and im saying this from experience)

With many businesses running on XP Pro still, they made sure proprietary software WILL run on 7.

Plus, ask any IT guy and he will definitely recommend you formatting and installing a fresh copy of windows over updating any day, for any given version. Update is messy, for any platform, even macs.

And no, im not saying all of the above because i'm a Microsoft Fanboy, i am running windows 7, and yes, it's that good

Running it on 2 machines, one running pentium 4 and 1 gig of ram, for 3 months now, and i didnt have a single compatibility issue with my new and older hardware, it runs at least twice as fast as vista, and the new taskbar is simply amazing for people multitasking. Drivers transition wont be hard either, with most of the major manufacturers like Intel, Nvidia, ATI, Creative, VIA etc etc already providing full win7 driver support to most of their hardware.

Look at it from the bright side...."others" payed 30 bucks for installing a service pack with "changes under the hood" masquerading as a new O/S and thought it was cheap too!

Run this and see if ur computer can run win7:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B544E90-7659-4BD9-9E51-2497C146AF15&displaylang=en

General note: If it runs windows Vista, win7 will sing on it

UPDATE: John, take a look at this, it might help:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd671583.aspx

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[Post edited by S_Coaster on Oct 11, 2009 - CDT 6:52 PM]

Coaster,

I'm not saying Windows 7 isn't a good product. I'm looking at it from a consumer's standpoint and wondering, first, why I should upgrade at all, and, second, why I should spend the next six weeks of my life doing it. It's a marketing thing, Coaster, not a product thing.

I mean, how many companies are going to start from scratch reinstalling all of their programs on all of their computers for a new operating system that gives them, what, fewer crashes? What if their programs have never crashed, anyway, as is the case with most XP owners.

If there isn't a compelling reason to change, especially when the change will be costly and time-consuming, what's the point? And what's the point of having a child advertise their product for them? Sorry, dumb.

John

well, it's true that microsoft's marketing is most of the times stupid and ignorant.

Im guessing their idea of using a 6 year old is trying to communicate the idea that she can do stuff with win7 easily...even if she's 6. Very 80s, very microsoft.

You're right thinking that if you dont need to upgrade there's no need to invest in a new O/S and probably newer hardware.

The problem is, and this always happens regardless of platform, if you don't do it now, youll have to do it later on ,either when u purchase a new pc or because the market leaned toward the new o/s and more and more software becomes exclusive for it. At that time, i assure you it will be harder to migrate to that O/S than it is now. You are not the first one to be angry at them for choosing not to provide a way to update, XP, a system most of us are running for 8 years now, and like you said, heavily customized and are accustomed too. What will happen eventually though is microsoft slowly dropping support for XP, meaning windows stops receiving important updates, so it becomes very sensitive to threads online. Microsoft extended the XP support when vista came out because many users held back from installing it, but by the time the support ends, i'm pretty sure it would be much harder updating than it would be now.

Sure, im not saying "Go out and pre-order today" (unless ur a vista user), maybe leave it sink in the market for 6 months...but generally speaking, the sooner the better.

I don't know... I think it's a cute commercial. Either way I say Sony wins for the PSPGo. Should have just put out PSP2. either way it's an overpriced POS.

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Can you say "dumb"? It's as if big companies go out of their way to do everything wrong.

With Vista being such a peice of crap I'm kinda looking forward to 7. Don't get me wrong, current machines that are still on XP will stay there until they die. My Vista machine will get the software upgrade soon. It is however going to be a pain in the ass to re-install all of that software again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhe0H8RDNcc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgriTO8UHvs&feature=related

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[Post edited by posters5 on Oct 11, 2009 - CDT 11:01 PM]

EPIC FAIL MICROSOFT!

and wth is a "PSPGO"??? you would never know it even existed..no commercials. nothing. I am really starting to believe the insanity that these companies are actually trying to destroy themselves in order to file bankruptcy and downsize. as stupid as that sounds.. look at the facts. I have been watching prime time football all freaking day (who-dey btw) and didn't see one commercial promoting the ps3 slim or pspgo. not one! and who predominantly watches football...young males! I did however see the peyton manning-justin timberlake commercial promoting "bravia" about 500 times! so they have the cash...would it have killed them to throw in a few ps3-pspgo plugs?

I've actually seen a couple PSPGo commercials... but I wouldn't know if they were trying to sell a Mobile gaming platform or a clothing product. That and the fact it's 50 bucks away from the PS3... I'm not planning on getting one for quite some time. They should have released it at 199.99. You don't price a portable game platform 50 bucks away from your actual console.

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[Post edited by Mike37 on Oct 11, 2009 - CDT 11:17 PM]