The software giant Microsoft is getting innovative and also experimentative. After the Queen of Britain setting “The Royal Channel - The Official Channel of the British Monarchy” on the video-sharing website ‘YouTube’, Microsoft PR people have also started their own channel ‘WindowsVistaAndLive‘ on the site. The channel, started on December 21, offers some good demonstrations of Vista, but it’s making news in the blogging world not for the less known features being publicized on the video-sharing site, but for the comments people have left on the channel.
As one can easily guess, the channel has received good number of comments and most of them are against the Vista. Most bloggers see Microsoft’s move to open the channel for comments as self-destructive. Most of the people who have left comment on its channel have found Vista to be a bad operating system, making is more annoying than appealing. One user EnzyteBob113 has written,
Are you sure you want to watch Microsoft’s YouTube channel? Yes. Are you sure you want to push the play button to begin watching the video? Yes. Are you really sure you want to push the play button? Dammit, yes. I wish Window’s Vista would stop treating me like I’m retarded.
Another user called Damejiar has expressed his heart as such,
Windows Vista really Sucks, too much requirements, too much memory consumption, and the interface is really bad, it was better Windows XP.
But I prefer Linux instead!!!!
Both ‘Linux’ and ‘Windows’ fans are giving negative feedbacks on Vista, the new Windows version, claimed to be a very evolved version of Windows. Many people are alleging Microsoft for being imitator, as they claim some open source operating system had already launched Vista-like system some five years back. One YouTube user, nebuchadnezzar38, said,
Vista sucks and Microsoft just steals innovations from other people. what losers. i wish i could pie Bill Gates again.
So, if you would like to share your views on windows, particularly Vista, the creators, Microsoft PR people would be too pleased (if you give some positive feedback about Vista, of course).
It can’t be said that the channel would succeed in breaking into competitors’ territory, but this surely proves that YouTube has grown too big and now commands respectable position in the world of communication. Had it not been so, the biggies like Microsoft and the Queen won’t have come to the video-sharing site with the desire for more effective communication.
And for Microsoft, “Any publicity is good publicity.” [This should keep them in good spirit.]
Source: Techcrunch
