On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:44:16 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Ballmer to Wall St: we always back a winner
>
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> | At about this point, investors must have been hankering for the security
> | of Office, and client and server operating systems. With Windows Vista
> | bedevilled by delays, Ballmer promised: "We will never repeat this
> | experience with Windows again. We will never have a five-year gap
> | between flagship products."
Next time it'll be 7 years?
> |
> | Pressed to explain what the company has done to avoid delays, Ballmer
> | said - chiefly - it had learned the classic lesson of promising too much
> | in one go. He said he shared this mistake jointly with Bill Gates,
> | Craig Mundie chief research and strategy officer and Jim Allchin,
> | co-president for platforms and services. "We tried to incubate too many
> | new things and integrate them simultaneously rather than let them bake.
In other words, Microsoft tried to innovate - and discovered they
don't know how.
> | There was too much complexity. We worked down that path for a while and
> | said it wouldn't work. We re-booted where we were.
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/28/ballmer_multicore_investments/
> That last line opens the door to many jokes.
Microsoft BSOD'd?
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