Ballmer describes Vista as work in progress
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 18.4.2008
Steve Ballmer has admitted that Vista is "a work in progress", and admitted the company has to learn lessons from its release.
Speaking at the Most Valuable Professional Global Summit in Seattle, Ballmer resisted calls for a slimmed down Windows 7: "Vista is bigger than XP and it's gonna stay bigger than XP. We have to make sure it doesn't get bigger still."
However, Ballmer went on to admit that it had taken too long to get Vista out the door and admitted it had caused problems: "Vista is a very important piece of work, and I think we did a lot of things right, and I think we have a lot of things we need to learn from.
"Certainly, you never want to let five years go between releases... because it turns out many things become problematic when you have those long release cycles. The design point, what you should be targeting, we can never let that happen again. We had some things that we can't just set the dial back that I think people wish we could."
Ballmer also struck a conciliatory tone over Windows XP, which the company recently announced would still be available on low cost laptops such as the Eee PC: "We have a lot of customers using Vista, and we have a lot of customers that are choosing to stay with Windows XP, and as long as those are both important options, we will be sensitive, and we will listen, and we will hear that."
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Comments(8)
after 5 years in development and millions of dollars in research all we have is a pig
wearing lipstick. vista a work in progress? no, its a flop at this point. i would call it
a piece of s.hit.
if i would sell anything not finished at my store... i would be the one finished there...
microsoft has got some nerve to go around telling they sold you - lol not me - an
unfinished product...
and they wonder why it's been such a failure...
in english, we will find a way to charge you more....
when ballmer wipes his ass it's work in progress cause it so fat it takes a whole roll
well i gave up on vista because i have no idea how to get my very old apps to work on
vista, the main reason for that is, i am a dumb person who has no idea how to make things
work on vista.
listen to the little pussy above me finger himself.
vista s.ucks period. deal with
it lose!
only a n00b would use it. get a life and a real os! omg
i now forever love vista, i am not going back to that outdated version called xp
i give up! updated nvidia drivers, updated bios, enable/disabled startup drivers... same
result: crash! sure it's better, but i experience at least one crash per day. i would
prefer to work in vista. due to its lack of older program support i purchased vmware to
run xp as a virtual machine... crash! okay, i created a dual-boot machine an will boot to
xp until m$ gets their act together. will it be called windows 7 do you think?
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