First impression disasters - Windows Vista
January 11th, 2007One of the blogs I read, Lifehacker, had this post about a preview of Windows Vista. I love a bit of technology, so quickly navigated to the site to have a look and a play. You would have to assume that this is exactly what the marketing people at Microsoft would have hoped for.
So I switch browser (I use Firefox rather than IE), give them my email address, install a bit of software (ActiveX) and start clicking…this is what I got.
So here are my first impressions of Windows Vista:
I’m not important to Microsoft - it is obviously a privilege to see a preview of this product, and I’m not invited
This company doesn’t understand the web - If you make something available on the web, make it available to everyone, or not at all or the first impression of (potentially) millions of people is the same I just had. And I still don’t know if it is any good. In the Information Age, people read and write blogs like these and share their first impressions like I do here, not just a selected group of journo’s that can be “managed”.
First impressions count. A lot.
