世論 What Japan Thinks

At the end of last month japan.internet.com reported on a survey conducted by JR Tokai Express Research into Windows Vista. They interviewed by means of a private internet-based survey 330 people from their monitor panel employed in public or private enterprises; 81.8% of the group was male, 12.7% in their twenties, 39.4% in their thirties, 35.2% in their forties, 11.8% in their fifties, and 0.9% in their sixties.

I’ve used a couple of the early developer releases of Vista, and quite frankly I was seriously unimpressed. One key reason was the overload in warnings every time you tried to do anything that affected system settings which served no useful purpose other than to train the user to aim for the OK button regardless of the details of any warning displayed. I don’t know how the final version has got round this problem. The other reason was that we couldn’t get a decent graphics card and display driver configured, so the front end was exceptionally slow. In addition, due to the beta nature, I suppose, Visual Studio 2005 crashed frequently and randomly. I’ll definitely be staying clear until at least the first service pack appears!

Q1: Are you interested in Vista, Microsoft’s new operating system? (Sample size=330)

Not seen or heard anything about it	14.2%
Heard about it from TV or newspapers, etc, but not interested	11.8%
Interested in it, but not done any research, etc	41.8%
Interested in it, and pay attention to media information on it	31.2%
Other	0.9%

Q2: For those of you interested in Vista, do you plan to buy a new PC? (Sample size=241)

Yes, with Vista	23.4%
Yes, with XP	7.8%
Yes, other PC	2.0%
No	51.2%
Don’t know	15.6%

I believe the “other” option covers Macs or even Linux-based systems.

Q3: Do you plan to use the upgrade to Vista coupon that comes with your XP machine? (Sample size=19)

Yes	42%
No	47%
Other	11%