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"[W]e're not going to have products that are much more successful than Vista has been."
--Steve Ballmer, 2008
Ballmer: Microsoft wasted time on Vista
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| In a chat with fellow CEOs at Microsoft's
| 14th annual CEO Summit, Microsoft boss
| Steve Ballmer came close to admitting
| Vista was a dog.
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http://www.thinq.co.uk/news/2010/5/20/ballmer-microsoft-wasted-time-on-vista/
Ballmer: We Wasted Too Many Years on Vista
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| During the speech, Ballmer took an
| honest-yet-surprising turn and admitted
| that Microsoft fell short with Windows
| Vista. "We tried too big a task and in
| the process wound up losing thousands of
| man hours of innovation," Ballmer said.
| He added that Microsoft spent too many
| years building the Windows Vista
| operating system, but then paused to
| question about the appropriate time frame
| for research and development.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Ballmer-Vista-CEO-Xbox-Steve,10474.html
Monty Ballmer â The Life of Vista
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| Remember the comments we highlighted here
| in regards to Vista from the Microsoft
| faithful at the time? Complete denial of
| any problems and in fact we highlighted
| many comments such as âVista is lovedâ or
| it being a âgift to the worldââI ask any
| Windows user here to think back to that
| time (and Im emailed by Windows users so
| I know they read this) and say, if MS
| Faithful were praising the Vista product
| then and now Ballmer admits this, what
| worth can you put into the voice of any
| Microsoft Advocate? â Iâll let you decide
| and Microsoftâs catalogue is eaten away
| by the plethora of alternatives.
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/monty-ballmer-the-life-of-vista/
Vista 7 is the same.
Recent:
Microsoft to Patch Unhackable Windows 7 Bug
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| Later today, Microsoft will play it safe by
| patching a Windows 7 bug that it says can't
| be exploited.
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| Of the 11 security bulletins that will be
| released in a few hours, "Bulletin 7" will
| address one or more vulnerabilities in
| Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server
| 2003.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/194102/microsoft_patch_windows_7.html?tk=rss_news
Intel hits migration delays with Windows 7
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| Intel faces challenges in migrating from
| Windows XP to Windows 7, including
| application incompatibility and system
| readiness, the company said.
|
| Intel worked with Microsoft to develop
| Windows 7 into a stable operating system, but
| there is still a lot of heavy lifting
| involved before migrating PCs to the new OS
| inside Intel's environment, wrote Intel staff
| engineer Roy Ubry in a blog entry. Challenges
| include issues related to backward
| application compatibility, web browser
| support, 64-bit computing and privacy
| controls.
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http://news.techworld.com/operating-systems/3213679/intel-hits-migration-delays-with-windows-7/
Intel: Just 3,000 employees run Windows 7
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| Despite the firm's rapid turnaround of PCs and its very public
| partnership with Microsoft, Bryant said that so far it had
| shifted just 3,000 of its 80,000 plus employees onto Windows 7.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/03/bryant_cebit_speech/
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