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Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4?
An anonymous reader writes "Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4? In this video, ZDNet takes to Sydney's streets to find out what people think of what they think is a Windows 7 demonstration. The results are surprising." Or maybe they're not surprising at all.
Congrats, kde4 has finally realized what macintosh has known all along and and microsoft is recently getting: It doesn't matter what you can or can't DO with an operating system as long as you look good while doing it.
Vista just caught a lot of flak because it was a worthless, intrusive piece of junk that got in the way of word processing, email, and video watching. KDE4 lets people do the tasks that they want to do and for people who can't tell the difference between a pentium and a hard drive, are you surprised they aren't hip to the latest window manager screenshots and developments? I'd like to see a spoof video where someone takes a gnome that's been crafted to look and act like OSX and do the same thing comparing Gnome to OSX
From what i've heard about kde4, the bugs in the 4.0 release might make most vista users feel right at home.
Is it sad that I am more likely to recognize you and your posts by your sig than your name or UID?
And I think this video is an appropriate response to the "Mojave Experiment" commercials.
Wasn't the "Mojave Experiment" done to show people's bias against "Vista" was due mostly to bad hype? Bad hype spread by "knowledgeable" computer geeks, that had mostly not used Vista themselves? They asked people what they felt/heard about "Vista" beforehand, then showed them Vista under a different name to demonstrate this.
Why was this begging for a response, was there something about Vista that you felt was uncovered? Something not shown, questions not asked? Oh, no, instead we show random people off the street a new computer interface and smugly lie about it being a different new computer interface!
What is this video's message? Microsoft should take out full page ads with vista desktop screenshots? Two minutes of TV commercial pointing and clicking on a desktop?
Really, what is the point man? I know you didn't make this video, but I'm curious what makes you think this was a worthwhile experiment, or even related to the "Mojave Experiment" marketing.
I could pick random people off the street and dupe most of them into thinking a C-130 is a DC-10, or a KC-135, or probably any large aircraft for that matter. What would that prove? That people who had never seen one before can't infer from the name what it is? HAH!
All these years OSS is still a giant circle-jerk.
If you set up a good jabber client (psi) you can connect to multiple accounts simultaneously, and each account can access different msn, yahoo, aol accounts, etc.
The longer you can stay away from windows, the safer your system will be.
cheers,