Windows 7 Taskforce

DeathSeeker wrote on January 1, 2009, 10:37pm

The Vista box is sexy. It's not like "remove the stickers" and "pull the red tab" are complex steps for most consumers.

.Chris wrote on January 1, 2009, 10:39pm

lol, its easy to open, just pull the tab.....

they are done with the cardboad boxes. most all the new microsoft software is in this new box. its 2009....

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fiji wrote on January 1, 2009, 11:02pm

I wasn't talking about me. The majority of the consumers I know hate the box.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/02/windows-vista-p.html
http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2007/02/windows-vista-love-packaging.html
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?ca...0142&enterthread=y

DeathSeeker wrote on January 1, 2009, 11:50pm

The majority of consumers spend one second looking at it. Realize it opens the same way as a pack of gum. Open it. Then pop the disks in.

domstapleton wrote on January 2, 2009, 12:36am

As Herbert Spencer said, it's "survival of the fittest". The people who aren't able to open the box, don't deserve to savour it's contents, as far as I'm concerned.

.Chris wrote on January 2, 2009, 1:04am

I fail to understand how hard it is to pull a tab...

andrei030 wrote on January 2, 2009, 3:32am

Great quote domstapleton, absolutely true.

Good_Bytes wrote on January 2, 2009, 5:25am

Pull the tab? I just pulled where you have the bumps marks on each side of the box.
The red label was added because...rrrr....it's a box, ok!. Without knowing, I opened it.
I really wonder what happen when the jar was invented... did it really say "Twist the cap off to open. Here is an instructional video to assist you in opening 'the jar'". Ok fine, videos didn't exists...

j/k

.Chris wrote on January 2, 2009, 5:26am

that works to.

fiji, give it up. microsoft wont go back to old way of doing things just to please you

billerr wrote on January 2, 2009, 3:49pm

Well, I don't think that the box is difficult to open, stll I think it's a non-useful hassle. Why such a different way to make a package that has worked in other ways successfully in the past? Change just for the sake of change? I can't seem to understand this rationale.

And @ some commenteer(s): Please, don't make it personal, no need for insulting comments. It's getting boring.

fiji wrote on January 2, 2009, 4:57pm

@ .Chris: What the hell. "Give it up". Are you insane? Am I the one arguing with people in the comments when people disagree. You don't see me doing that. How is this supposed to statisfy me? Did Long create this whole taskforce to statisfy me? While the majority of consumers who struggle to open a box shocken me. I just thought that a different packaging might be easier for them! I once seen (no kidding) a grandpa take a hammer and try to break the Vista box open. Ended up with a broken disk and scratched product key sticker! So before you start talking crap, THINK! BTW, have you even opened the box!

.Chris wrote on January 2, 2009, 5:15pm

I opened the box right away, with out a need for guides or videos. I just looked at the box, saw the two tabs as well as that red tab i automatically knew it was tio open it

and whos "grandpa" and how do you know hes a "grandpa"

fiji wrote on January 2, 2009, 5:45pm

He is my friends grandpa and I seen him do that.

.Chris wrote on January 2, 2009, 6:09pm

I highly dobut that....

fiji wrote on January 2, 2009, 6:11pm

Well you don't know him do you....

tino wrote on January 2, 2009, 9:48pm

Two of two Vista boxes I have opened where broken. On the first one it wasn't visible so I really spend a LOT of time figuring out how to open it because the mechanism was blocked and it was one of the earlier versions without the red tab at the top.

The size is great but the used material is cheap and the mechanism is a little overkill. It tells a lot that they have to put labels on it to explain the packaging!

I am confident that the Win7 team will focus on content and not on crazy childish packages that make strange sounds when you open them. ;)

billerr wrote on January 3, 2009, 12:20am

@tino: Lol, what sound did Vista's box make? :P

And you used the word that describes this packaging best: overkill.

What's wrong with regular CD or DVD cases or something similar?

.Chris wrote on January 3, 2009, 1:17am

Because they want the packing to look neat and it is...

May be they should jusat improve it instead of going back ot cardboard whitch is what fiji wants

tino wrote on January 3, 2009, 1:23am

@billerr: I mean the scraping of plastic on plastic.

It's not that they don't know how to do it right:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2153/2167960926_14bff18b47_b.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/arunspics/2891417150/sizes/l/

:)

fiji wrote on January 3, 2009, 1:34am

@ .Chris: I didn't say I want them to go back to cardboard. I wanted them to simply change the packaging!

.Chris wrote on January 3, 2009, 2:37am

Like I said, they can IMPROVE the current way

nitrous9200 wrote on January 4, 2009, 4:55am

Can't they put the instructions on the box? Or use some sort of plastic latch that can be released with a button press? Seems like a simple solution.

FreakyT wrote on January 4, 2009, 4:35pm

I think the new boxes are cool, but I believe MS should get rid of them regardless because they're quite bad for the environment compared to regular software boxes.

.Chris wrote on January 4, 2009, 6:42pm

So go back to ugly old cardboard? come on get with the times kids

Good_Bytes wrote on January 5, 2009, 12:03am

FreakyT, no they are not. Plastic is recycle... plasticize card board boxes.... no everywhere in the world.

PurrBall wrote on January 8, 2009, 5:28am

I think they should use much smaller packaging and if that means the mechanism has to go, so be it.