Comments on: Microsoft says Vista is annoying on purpose http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/channel-marker/microsoft-says-vista-is-annoying-on-purpose/ A SearchITChannel.com blog Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:26:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Windows Strategy Backfire « John’s Recon http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/channel-marker/microsoft-says-vista-is-annoying-on-purpose/#comment-578 Windows Strategy Backfire « John’s Recon Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:43:42 +0000 http://channelmarker.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/14/microsoft-says-vista-is-annoying-on-purpose/#comment-578 [...] I even read that they made this annoying on purpose. If a user is constantly harassed by a piece of software he will give up and get rid of it or complain to the software writers. This was their way of convincing independent software vendors to quit writing code that requires administrative access. BUT it is Windows Vista that is carrying the message and bothering you all the time. I guess it never occurred to them that the majority of users will be coming from their XP product and wanting to configure Vista and bring other purchased tools with them. MEANING they will be seeing UAC “scolding” a lot and it will appear that Microsoft’s Vista is complaining all the time. The thing that they wanted you to see happen with your other tools is a rather infrequent occurance compared with what the OS complains about. Now that is a Strategy Backfire. [...] [...] I even read that they made this annoying on purpose. If a user is constantly harassed by a piece of software he will give up and get rid of it or complain to the software writers. This was their way of convincing independent software vendors to quit writing code that requires administrative access. BUT it is Windows Vista that is carrying the message and bothering you all the time. I guess it never occurred to them that the majority of users will be coming from their XP product and wanting to configure Vista and bring other purchased tools with them. MEANING they will be seeing UAC “scolding” a lot and it will appear that Microsoft’s Vista is complaining all the time. The thing that they wanted you to see happen with your other tools is a rather infrequent occurance compared with what the OS complains about. Now that is a Strategy Backfire. [...]

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