Then and now: Assessing Ballmer's Vista comments
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| Consider the contrasting tone of Ballmer's comments on stage at the
| Windows Vista launch event three weeks ago:
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| "We think in the next three months we'll probably sell five times
| as many copies of Windows Vista as we ever did [Windows 95] in the
| equivalent period of time"
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| Now compare the comments above with those he made to analysts
| this past week, as excerpted below...
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/111773.asp?source=rss
Ballmer's nine areas of guaranteed growth
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| With a few exceptions, Ballmer's list is basically a rundown of the
| areas where Microsoft has already been making money. The only really
| interesting part of the list is what is not on it. As Mary Jo Foley
| highlighted, the list omits Windows Live, an area that Microsoft has
| been heavily promoting over the last year. In October, Ballmer was
| even quoted as saying, "The most important thing is the Live
| platform." And if you're wondering where the Zune and IPTV are,
| they were included in another list provided by Ballmer. He said
| that both the Zune and IPTV would be areas of high growth, but
| that neither were immediate money makers.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/2/18/7112
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