Mary Jo again: our secret Windows advocate.
Well I’ve finally had a chance to properly listen to the podcast I did with Mary Jo the other day when she came on Campus. I also forgot to link to Mark’s fantastic write up too when I blogged about this yesterday.
One thing that struck me though when I was listening to the podcast again. Mary Jo has enormous problems getting access to the Windows team at corp. She is an advocate for Windows apps, is very anti Apple, uses a PC – and feels that Vista “just can’t get a break” because after we’d “came clear and basically apologised”and issued service pack 1, and delivered a good marketing campaign with the I’m a PC ads, she feels that we’ve “finally turned around” and gives the team kudos for admitting what they did wrong, but that we came to this so late she doesn’t think we can “undo the market damage”
Well I could understand the Windows team not wanting to talk to one of our competitors – or one of our detractors – but I’d think that as Mary Jo is already responding to blog comments criticising Windows Vista – so she’s therefore an advocate, then sharing information with her about our next products for her to report on makes a lot of sense to me…
Whenever she blogs about Vista, and gets complaints about how awful Vista is – she goes back to the commenter with “have you used it? Have you even tried the product? And most of them haven’t” She gets 300-400 comments on blog entries with just “pure attack” but when she tries to go back to see who some of these people are, to email them and to ask “so you say none of your apps work then? Which ones don’t work?” “No one answers. A lot of the email addresses are fake. So who’s out there stirring the pot?”
And she challenges anyone to “come to her with a list of 5 apps that don’t work on Vista and she’ll write about them – if it’s true”
So I’m baffled. Come on guys – you’ve got a great opportunity here with a positive influential blogger who can write about our future stuff – why don’t you take Mary Jo up on her offer?…
