With Vista, seeing is believing, says Gates - page 2 | Newsmakers | CNET News.com
With Vista, seeing is believing, says Gates - page 2 | Newsmakers | CNET News.com: "Q: One of the things that Microsoft tried to introduce with Vista is the idea that megahertz isn't necessarily the best way to measure a PC. The Windows Experience Index was an attempt to give you an overall sense of how powerful a PC is. We've seen it go from something that was really prominent in the early test versions to something that is maybe not as prominent. Is it still something that's important?
Gates: Our team has done a great job on this, where you can look at the score in each individual area, like the graphics or CPU. You can also have an overall rating. It had gotten so confusing for people to try and understand these things, that we decided just having a linear scale in a few of the key areas and a way of bringing that together, it would help you in terms of picking games out or knowing what the right hardware is. (We've done) a lot of work with the industry to try and take what has been very complex and bring it down to a numeric scale."
With this kind of thing you can start moving in to huge markets. Even if they were a wiz with the word processor, do they know what kind of video card will support that? No. Do they know what or where their video card is? No.
Through the simplification of complexities, the distribution of materials at greater speeds by less trained personnel to less trained customers.
Gates: Our team has done a great job on this, where you can look at the score in each individual area, like the graphics or CPU. You can also have an overall rating. It had gotten so confusing for people to try and understand these things, that we decided just having a linear scale in a few of the key areas and a way of bringing that together, it would help you in terms of picking games out or knowing what the right hardware is. (We've done) a lot of work with the industry to try and take what has been very complex and bring it down to a numeric scale."
With this kind of thing you can start moving in to huge markets. Even if they were a wiz with the word processor, do they know what kind of video card will support that? No. Do they know what or where their video card is? No.
Through the simplification of complexities, the distribution of materials at greater speeds by less trained personnel to less trained customers.
posted by Kombucha @ 1/29/2007 05:52:00 PM
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