BuzzBooster, Robert Scoble, and a Sad Realization

This week we had our first event here in Utah: "Turning Knowledge into Products" and it was a great success. We had almost 200 people attending and the feedback for us has been amazing. We sure had lots of fun!

This is me, Shahar

Nash taking care of business

We had a great crowd there!

We also had the opportunity to attend an event where Robert Scoble was the speaker. He is the author of Naked Conversations a great book about blogs. He was on my list of people I must meet and I'm really happy I did. In the internet marketing arena it is really easy to find people calling themselves internet marketers that lack knowledge, or are all about pitching their next product, so when you find someone that is really full of content and is not afraid to share, it's like finding water in the desert.

Robert Scoble at the Slopecast07

Then I came home to my new toy that has the ability to make me feel really bad. Two weeks ago I bought a Toshiba satellite with Windows Vista. What was supposed to be a happy moment turned out to be a big frustration. Two weeks later we are still trying to make things work in this new system. Even the air card that we bought a week before had to be replaced for another one that is supposed to be compatible with Vista, but so far.....

Not to mention all my softwares that don't function properly with the system. Office is a software I've been using for so many years and now I have to re-learn. The interface is beautiful but things moved around.

I made a test. Asked 5 of my clients to save as... a document in this new Office. The two that were able to do it took over 15 minutes to find where "the save as.." was.

This frustation reminds me of the begining of last year when we bought a Dell LapTop. It had the new express card slot and came without a ilink port. There were no air cards to put there and no adaptors. The company said it would take "only" six months for them to come with the adaptor or new cards, which took a lot longer. Not to mention the battery. This is more than enough for me to never again consider buying a Dell laptop in my life. My clientes always ask me about which laptop they should buy and my first reaction is: never buy a Dell.

Well, Microsoft might think it was a great business decision releasing Vista, after all a lot of new softwares and upgrades will be sold, but the marketing department, what were they doing? Eating a donut?

Maybe business people and boomers are not their demographics anymore. Maybe just young people that can afford to spend the time to figure out everything that changed and that have the time to keep going to forums to find out how to fix every bug.

Let's think, $1500 for the new laptop, $500 for the office package, new air card, new whatever it is that you used before and you'll have to change. With this money, you can get a nice Apple that is a lot prettier anyway. What stopped me before was the fact that 90% of my clients used Windows, so it made sense that mine was also one, but since soon they will come to the same sad realization.......

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posted by Shahar Boyayan @ 12:03 PM