Jazzed-up Microsoft is cooler than before: Reuters/Ipsos

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/21/us-microsoft-poll-idUSBRE91K05P20130221

by petrel • 13 years ago

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bonchibuji• 13 years ago

'But Google Inc's Android brand did even better, with a full 70 percent giving it the thumbs up.'

Always wondered how many of the Android users really knew that it's from Google. Any stats?

There was even a great discussion about how Google was planning to kill the Android brand. Maybe they have realized that people don't associate Google with Android.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5256888

Edit: Added link

SlipperySlope• 13 years ago

What would really be cool…

Build the windows UI On top of Linux and open-source the whole thing.

And for mobile, put Windows apps on android.

jgroome• 13 years ago

Bit of a non-issue really, surely?

As for Microsoft being perceived as "cooler", maybe it's because their parents are all using Apple products (mine, well into their 50s, are MacBook and iPhone users, and my 62 year old aunt is the same). Maybe it's something to do with how they get hand-me-down devices and so associate Apple with two/three-year-old tech.

Interesting though that they count 18 - 29 as "young adult". I'm 29 and consider myself well over the technological hill compared to the whippersnappers working in tech now. It also seems kind of pointless to ask 18 - 29 year olds what they consider "cool"; I'd have thought an age group like 13 - 18 would be more informative.

Jazzed-up Microsoft is cooler than before: Reuters/Ipsos

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