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Enough About Mojave; Is Vista Entrepreneur-Friendly?
By Bizbox
After a week of writing about The Mojave Experiment, Microsoft's bizarre, unorthodox, probably unsuccessful ad campaign, we're done. Except to link to this article about it that appeared on our sister site Slate yesterday. There: done.
But what about Vista, the real, all-too-real operating system itself? This was the subject of the comments we received on our original post. "At the end of the day, Microsoft needs to examine how to make its operating systems more reliable and secure," wrote one commenter. "Those are the things that the marketplace wants, not another gewgaw that will demand a computer upgrade to operate properly." Another was more blunt: "Microsoft doesn't have a branding issue with Vista. The issue they have is that it's junk." (And as for the one who smelled conspiracy in our "glowing write-up": are you sure you actually read the post? "Glowing" is probably not the single best adjective.)
We want to hear from you. Many of the complaints surrounding Vista concern the ease (or, more materially, lack thereof) with which users can set it up and use it on the most basic level, with the ur-complaint being that it is well nigh impossible to link a Vista computer to a printer. (For a good laugh, see here.) Such tech-difficulty naturally hits small businesses harder than large ones, which are more likely to have legions of tech guys at everyone's beck and call.
Has this been your experience? To be blunt about it: are small business owners best off upgrading to Vista, or staying put? Or should they be making the move to that other company--you know, the one with the apple logo?
Comments (0)August 6, 2008 2:29 PM
