Survey Says…..

Published on August 25, 2012 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

Island Dog told you about MS’s new Corporate Logo this past week. The folks weren’t crazy about it. Well, WC is kind of biased about W8 and after all, since XP, what we love the most (customization) options and enthusiasts has been shrinking.

The colors?

A (forbidden to say) “the artist formerly known as Metro now called Windows 8 only” Winflag (per Po’Smedley its awards stripped for doping), and a 50% gray (‘shoppers’ will understand this) Segoe font.

Most, if not all weren’t very reassuring about it.

Turns out, PCMagazine did the same for its world wide audience in a poll.

Here are the results:

Broken down by country:

So it’s “unlikers” are American, Canadian, South American, English, European, Balkan and Chinese, with a smattering of others.

Not all bad news for MS: Russia, Australia (surprised me), India, Pakistan, Poland, Egypt, Greece and some others like it.

My own feeling about the survey? A lot of dislikes, but I don’t think that would deter one single purchase.

The OS’s bad points might just do that by themselves.

Comments

Uvah

on Aug 26, 2012

Survey says......door number 2. The one with the big window that lets you see in but no knob to open it. Drool!

moshi

on Aug 26, 2012

The most important data from this survey is:

PC Magazine does not have a worldwide audience.

Except for the US votes, all numbers are statistically irrelevant.

moshi

on Aug 26, 2012

And even for the US the majority is neither like nor unlike.

DrJBHL

on Aug 26, 2012

moshi

reply 2

PC Magazine does not have a worldwide audience.

...that answers polls.

moshi

on Aug 26, 2012

Who? Those three people from Japan or four people from Russia hardly make an audience.

The Financial Times or the National Geographic Magazine have a worldwide audience, PC Magazine doesn't.

The "neutral" vote seems to have the majority in the only country with relevant numbers. Actually that is good news, as the look of the corporate logo really does not matter. I would have expected more people to confuse it with the Windows logo.

DrJBHL

on Aug 26, 2012

It's not a 'hot' topic anywhere... here folks tend to be unhappy about certain features of W8, and hope SD will come up with 'the cure'. I feel if a 'cure' is needed, I want no part of it... besides, I'm an old dog and teaching me new tricks isn't the easiest of tasks.

Also... it's only a logo. Their W8 logo was insipid as well, and I hate to think I have to look forward to a deluge of Wallpapers or skins commemorating the forgettable.

Ultimately, I don't think a decision about adopting an OS should be based on whether you like the logo... it should be based on whether it makes the hardware do what its supposed to/you want it to do, without having to be a systems engineer to accomplish.

That 8 unites across platforms has pluses as well as minuses. That I really don't need that is even more a plus as it's less a drain on the pocket. What I'm most concerned about is that it'll become (eventually) the only Windows product supported. At that point my decisions might have to be of a different nature altogether.

Jafo

on Aug 26, 2012

it should be based on whether it makes the hardware do what its supposed to/you want it to do .... Spell checker

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