More Than 3 Out of 4 Enthusiasts Reject Windows 8

Night Hawk said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

theveterans said:

This is the one main reason why more and more consumers are just buying online instead of dealing with lackluster salespeople.

That and much better product selection, better prices, and better availability (fewer stockouts). I live in a major megopolis and it's like living in Hicksville.

I could name a few retail chains where once something is out it takes forever if at all to see restocked in the local stores!...

Wally World and Fry's Electronics are the worst offenders in my neck of the woods.

Hi there
Didn't everybody make the same comment when THIS version of Windows appeared.
"No I want my old DOS screen back".

Nothing changes it seems.

Cheers
jimbo

lehnerus2000 said:

SIW2 said:

It doesn't matter what the customers want.

Homer's response, to Lisa's criticism about his makeup gun, sums it up nicely.
Homer the inventor - YouTube

People will like what I tell them to like?

It sounds like most of Microsoft's marketing.

LOL.

SIW2 said:

Greg,

were told our feedback wasn't wanted on Win8

Why would MS care what the MVP's think.

Well for Global MVP Summit they spend a fortune on wining, dining and five star hotels so I thought I should work a bit for my dinner.

I've spent a few days thinking about an answer to that.

Fact is I arrived at my first Summit 2011 expecting to meet with the WIndows 7 Product Team, having compiled a list of concerns which were then largely influenced by your leadership here. First up was weakness of Win7 backup imaging not being up to Win7 standards.

What I found was that Consumer MVP's were not assigned any Product group to interact with, so at our Product Group dinner we just met our MVP lead and discussed amongst ourselves. I got to hear a lot of outrage about how the MS Answers MVP's had just been locked out of their Control Panels with v.2.

In fact the only real content for Consumer MVP's were sessions for Answers, where the next year I got to meet their dynamic new VP (and former Oprah web czar) who had great plans and was also quite complimentary to me about 7F. This year however was a different picture as angry Answers MVP's demanded to know why none of the promised features (like ours) were delivered - apparently due to budget strains from taking on the Support load for so many new products.

I was also stunned back then in 2011 when we sat down to one seminar with a senior MS program manager who started by telling us not to even ask about Win8 preview bits (no one had) because they didn't need or want any feedback from us, would get everything needed from exabites of telemetry. This is the same guy who's now trying to force business into Win8 saying their BIOS' are at risk without Secure Boot, to which business has replied unanimously by deciding on Win7.

So I rest my hope that the market corrections will finally vindicate the best OS desktop experience ever, and repudiate an alleged successor OS with zero Desktop Experience.