Comments on: Matt Stein’s Blog and Microsoft’s Mojave Marketing http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/09/01/matt-steins-blog-and-microsofts-mojave-marketing/ A strange mix of AutoCAD, music, image manipulation and video Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:09:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: ralphg http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/2008/09/01/matt-steins-blog-and-microsofts-mojave-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-1206 ralphg Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:55:26 +0000 http://www.blog.cadnauseam.com/?p=162#comment-1206 Mojave is a repeat of the the Pepsi Taste Challenge, where "blind" testers are given a sip of unidentified Coke and Pepsi. Because Pepsi is sweeter, it tastes better in a quantity as small as a sip. In larger quantities, Coke tastes better, because it is less sweet. Microsoft is repeating the marketing error of Autodesk from Release 13. Back then, then-CEO Carol Bartz pronounced the R13 issues as a "marketing problem," not a technical one. Echo forward to 2008, where Microsoft would rather spend $300 million fixing Vista's image instead of its problems. As for the Logitech mice not working properly with Vista, I finally got double-click (on the middle button) to work, but only after so much driver install/unintstal older/newer versions, that I cannot tell you how to do it. On my wife's Vista computer, I still haven't got double-click working on its Logitech mouse. Presumably, double-click works on Mojave... Mojave is a repeat of the the Pepsi Taste Challenge, where “blind” testers are given a sip of unidentified Coke and Pepsi. Because Pepsi is sweeter, it tastes better in a quantity as small as a sip. In larger quantities, Coke tastes better, because it is less sweet.

Microsoft is repeating the marketing error of Autodesk from Release 13. Back then, then-CEO Carol Bartz pronounced the R13 issues as a “marketing problem,” not a technical one. Echo forward to 2008, where Microsoft would rather spend $300 million fixing Vista’s image instead of its problems.

As for the Logitech mice not working properly with Vista, I finally got double-click (on the middle button) to work, but only after so much driver install/unintstal older/newer versions, that I cannot tell you how to do it. On my wife’s Vista computer, I still haven’t got double-click working on its Logitech mouse.

Presumably, double-click works on Mojave…

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