It’s true what they say: show regular people a Microsoft operating system that they haven’t seen yet and a Linux desktop environment that they’ve never used and they won’t be able to tell the difference.
ZDNet Australia puts the theory to the test, showing people KDE 4 and telling them it’s Windows 7. Is that even fair? I guess it’s pretty much the same as showing people Vista and telling them it’s not Vista. Oh moooh-haaaa-vaaaaay!
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Apple leads, and everybody else follows!!!
What a loss of productivity among the non-Apple users!!!
No, Xerox Park lead everyone else is just copying each other!
Copy Xerox?
True, but go on the same street and tell them its Snow Leopard (and after the ask what the heck snow leopard is) they will probably tell you they like Snow Leopard too.
I think the lesson is that people want something that is easy to use and looks nice. I think it would be interesting if the users actually were using the thing.
Yes, the Mahave thing was a bit gimicky but so is MAC vs PC. Point being?
Naaah….didnt do much for me….
If someone comes up to person who is not technically savvy or inqusitive….with a laptop and says this is windows 7….they may have OSX or KDE4 or an OS from Alien Space Ship…..if it has got features that provides funk and ease and performace everyone will say windows 7 my take….
The real test is….take two laptops….one with windows 7 and one with KDE4….let a person use it for a while and let them make up their mind…..
As always crunchgear writter exagerating what the video showed and if you saw it to the end the conclusion is that windows 7 and kde are not well known. I even betcha thats the latest kde that came out like 2 weeks ago. If you are going to make a suggestion on any OS and people don´t know about them then i think its fair to say that it can be misleading so next time crunchgear do your job as you should.
Huh?