世論 What Japan Thinks

Following up on two days ago’s translated survey that showed surprisingly high penetration of Internet Explorer 7, japan.internet.com published the results of a survey conducted by JR Tokai Express Research into Windows Vista. The survey was conducted on the 28th of February, barely a month after Vista’s release in Japan, which seems not to have been much of a success. Note also the results of a previous survey conducted last year into interest in Microsoft Vista recorded one in five planning to upgrade.

Demographics

330 people from their monitor group employed in public or private enterprises replied to the private internet-based survey. 74.8% of the sample was male, 16.4% in their twenties, 43.9% in their thirties, 28.8% in their forties, 8.2% in their fifties, and 2.7% in their sixties.

I’m holding off from Vista for the moment myself; I don’t see any need to upgrade from XP, and indeed I also see many reasons not to upgrade, having used it for a time at work last Autumn when testing out the beta versions. Despite most people having Vista-ready notebook computers, I don’t know of anyone at our workplace who has tried upgrading their main PCs.
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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!
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