Comments on: Windows 7 Was My Idea

By: Rman1968

Rman1968 — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:38:00 +0000

I don’t think you give repetition enough credit… In many aspects of life, things that are repeated often enough get accepted by a large portion of the populous (I would say north of 80%) as being true. So if someone says they are better and don’t say why, it does not really matter. Over 80% of the population will simply remember hearing something was better. I think electoral campaigns are clear evidence of this. Truth, accuracy or brilliant content does not make a good political add, but repeating the other guy is a crook many times does a better job, than saying why this candidate is better. It is sad, but the majority of people are just not that smart (or not that interested in learning/understanding.).

By: Binki

Binki — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:36:55 +0000

@Maria
lol, didn’t think of that, but so true.

Those Windows using illiterates, thinking they are using something revolutionary, when in reality they are using poor imitations of functions Apple has been refining in Mac for years.

By: Maria

Maria — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:26:46 +0000

Every time I see one of those “My Idea” commercials, I think to myself, “No, that was Apple’s idea.” This campaign is great for those former disgruntled Vista users, but anyone who works on a Mac knows those features have been around for a while. I’m just waiting for a commercial that says, “Hi, I’m Steve Jobs, and Windows 7 was MY idea” – or something like that.

By: Suzi

Suzi — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:46:57 +0000

Just pretentious. Windows 7 was MY idea? c’mon…

By: Randy

Randy — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:50:34 +0000

I think the “My Idea” campaign ads I like the most are those with the very subtle switch in performers when the person is reflecting back to when they had “their idea”. E.g. the slight more buff Steven trimmin his hedge. Let’s face it, we all want to have, or do have, an image of ourselves that is slightly better than what others see.

I’m not sure what the switch in performers is meant to allude to. But you gotta believe that the folks who worked on Windows Vista had a slightly better image of what the product was than what it turned out to be. Nonetheless, I think they made up for it… Windows 7 ROCKS!

By: pdizzle

pdizzle — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:37:12 +0000

Interesting take on the 7 was my idea. Maybe I’ve been burned by windows too many times, but I find them disingenuous. As in, “I paid Microsoft hundreds of dollars of my hard earned money for an operating system that wouldn’t suck, only to find it riddled with viruses, bloatware, and issues. So I called them up and complained like heck and even considered switching to another OS. After their operating system failed so miserably people were actually downgrading from it, public outcry forced them back to the drawing board so that they have finally come out with a functional OS. Yet instead of offering it as a free upgrade to those suckers who purchased their last piece of junk, I can get in on this action by shelling out a couple hundred more dollars to them.” Windows & may have been my idea, but it was their idea to gouge me twice.

By: Merlynn

Merlynn — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:23:07 +0000

I have a question tho — the “windows 7 was my idea” (which is genius for whenever anything goes wrong with the OS, MS won’t have to take the blame, right?! Kidding!) commercials — when the people speaking recall their “aha” moment — the actors change. It’s weird. The actress is sitting there telling you about the time she thought “my pc should be safer” and when they show her in her “memory,” she’s a different person. I haven’t seen all the commercials in that campaign, but I noticed it in one with a man as well.
As far as the ridiculously cute scary smart kid — she’s making a video to send to her parents. Where the heck are her parents that she has to send them a video?

By: Nicholas Chase

Nicholas Chase — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:44:24 +0000

As a recent recipient of a Windows 7 Ultimate promotional DVD, I installed it on a brand new 1-terabyte drive. I proceeded to fill it with the usual applications of my profession, Vegas Pro 9 video editing and various Pro-Tools plugins and such.

I can say without hesitation that I love Windows 7. So many missing features in past releases have been addressed by this OS release. I’m amazed at the 15-second boot time to desktop speed! This is on a Pentium III single core CPU!

My old Vista Ultimate OS took at least one minute to get to the desktop.

Finally most of the ridiculous temperature bar installation animations are less annoying when setup.exe’s run blazingly fast. When did OS developers decide that we need to watch the progress of an applications installation by showing us every file being loaded into our system?

Computers for me are a tool, an appliance to do some work.

For so many years, owning and configuring a PC was mind-numbing. Making things work seemed to be on the shoulders of the consumer. Customer service was difficult, and just why is Microsoft’s Knowledge base so huge?

Because of the complexity of their OS of course. .dll’s, interrupts, nomenclature that should be reserved for the scientist is shared with the end user, a bad way to go.

Mac’s had a closed system when I bought a 128K Mac in 1984. With two floppy drives and a printer the price was over $3,000.00! The first hard drives for Mac were Bournouli’s at a whopping 10 MB on a disc.

I built my last PC for video editing and Photoshop work. With this latest OS of WIN 7 I can truly use the power hidden in the box.

Respectfully,

Nicholas Chase – Producer / Director
Nicholas Chase Digital Video Productions
SF Bay Area, CA
Twitter\@nachase