Filed under: Humor, OS, Surveys and Polls
Microsoft survey asks about Aqua
It seems like even Microsoft's marketing department knows a thing or two about nerdy UI stuff, as a recent survey that offers copies of Vista Beta on CD asks what the fancy new 'let's make everything 50% transparent because transparency is teh r0x0r' effects in Vista are called. Wouldn't you know - Aqua is one of the multiple answers! Right up there along with 'Aero' (the correct choice) and 'Zero' (funny how they rhyme). I would honestly love to see the stats on these test results.
Fortunately, Microsoft also allows Vista beta hopefuls to share how the four-years-late OS truly makes them feel with another question: "Windows Vista brings _____ to your world" has three options: Confusion, Creativity and Clarity (nevermind the large Vista banner at the top of the survey page - pictured). Be careful how you answer kids; you do want that copy of the clarifying (hint hint) Windows Vista beta, right?
Right?
Thanks Ety
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
kevin said 11:14AM on 8-22-2006
[monotone] that is funny.
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Andrew said 11:15AM on 8-22-2006
My favorite part about the whole survey is that, upon submitting it, you get marked on it.
"Give us your thoughts, and we'll tell you if they're right!"
Microsoft arrogance.
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Laurent said 11:18AM on 8-22-2006
LOL, this quiz is so stupid! The glass effect in Vista should really be called "Zero".
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spil said 11:20AM on 8-22-2006
ROFL both of the above comments deserve a star.
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Stephen said 11:46AM on 8-22-2006
This may be off topic, but how do you get into the top contributors. Do you have to register or something?
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Spike 2.0 said 11:47AM on 8-22-2006
Oh boy, did the quiz, got a 7/8 got the "what does vista do" one wrong, talk about corp-speak bull$hit.
oh well i thought, a free beta in the post is cool. ooops dont have a .net passport, so i sign up for it, ten minutes later, three confirmation emails, each one has to be verified to activate your account.
Seriously? Please.
mmmmm vista coffee coasters. windowsalicious.
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Bud said 11:52AM on 8-22-2006
Pretty soon they'll be forced to take the AOL approach and send their Vista disks in the mail every two weeks, and little school children will be using them for school art projects.
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Wysiwyg said 12:20PM on 8-22-2006
Woo-hoo! 1 right out of 8! I´m reallyreallyreeeeaaaally a Mac user! :-D
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Stephen said 12:24PM on 8-22-2006
"Pretty soon they'll be forced to take the AOL approach and send their Vista disks in the mail every two weeks, and little school children will be using them for school art projects."
Lol. Good one, Bud. Then people will be shoving it in their microwaves and sharing the footage of an exploding microwave on YouTube.
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Lush said 12:25PM on 8-22-2006
Um....Aero and Zero don't rhyme.
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Brendan said 12:36PM on 8-22-2006
"Be careful how you answer kids; you do want that copy of the clarifying (hint hint) Windows Vista beta, right?"
It doesn't matter how many you get right or wrong. You still get the free CD/DVD.
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Ken C said 1:02PM on 8-22-2006
Did anyone notice this was for Microsoft India? It does allow a Address in the states but yeah
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spil said 1:10PM on 8-22-2006
Stephen- you get in the top contributers by getting stars, which the bloggers at TUAW hand out to people who they think are posting relevent things in the comments. You can get into the top contributers of you have at least as many stars as (or more) of the bottom person, and s/he would get knocked off because I think they only have 20 "spots" so that sidebar doesnt get congested.
That was Stars 101, you now have 16 credits towards your graduation of weblogs inc. college.
Sincerely,
Dr. Joe Kickass, PhD
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tc said 1:44PM on 8-22-2006
re:"Um....Aero and Zero don't rhyme."
depending on yer accent is shore duz!!!
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Brian Ashe said 5:05PM on 8-22-2006
> Um....Aero and Zero don't rhyme.
Sure they do. Look how they're spelled. They *have* to rhyme. Just like how 'laughter' rhymes with 'daughter.' Duh. :-)
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Thayne Miller said 6:18PM on 8-22-2006
I just love how loaded the questions are. What a stupid joke. Then, by the end, you have to give microsoft your address so they can spam the hell out of you. They don't even offer you a download of the iso any more. Um... maybe I'm on crack, but shouldn't the richest corporation in the world be able to afford more bandwidth? Oh right... it's not a bandwidth issue. They just didn't want the whole world to see how shitty their new OS is compared to Leopard. (hell, compared to ANY OS X incarnation)
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Mike Sewell said 10:30PM on 8-22-2006
Only Microsoft would put a tagline like:
"Bring clarity to your world" in front of a hazy, hard to see landscape. Even the dude on the right is having a hard time seeing anything. Clarity indeed.
Top shelf Microsoft Marketing. Top shelf.
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Casey said 11:08PM on 8-22-2006
I'm using Vista Beta right now. I like it. I have noticed, though, that UI stuff like, opening folders, pics, and the usual grunt work stuff runs just as fast on my 1.2GHZ windows box as they do on my 400MHZ (overclocked) G3. Of course the G3 really starts to chug when I crank up youtube.
I was thinking of switching 100% to OSX but then I thought about shelling out $100+ every year to stay up to date. So it looks like I'll keep running both side by side with the G3 running on used software.
I guess that was off topic though. Maybe when I find out why using such great software as OSX makes people spend so much time bashing something they find to be so inferior...Maybe then I'll really be ready to switch.
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Steve said 5:24AM on 8-23-2006
I chose confusion ;)
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