Ballmer: "Vista is a work in progress"

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Ballmer: "Vista is a work in progress"

Post by greggh » Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:25 pm

http://osnews.com/story/19650/Ballmer:_ ... n_Progress
Windows Vista: A work in progress. [Laughter, applause.] 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. Can we just sort of kiss that stone and move on? 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't ever let that happen again. We had some things that we can't just set the dial back, but I think people wish we could. Vista is bigger than XP. It's going to stay bigger than XP. We have to make sure it doesn't get bigger still, and that the performance and that the battery life and that the compatibility, we're driving on the things that we need to drive hard to improve.
It's refreshing to hear monkey boy pretty much outright admit that Vista is a bloated pig of a piece of software.

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Re: Ballmer: "Vista is a work in progress"

Post by akuma624 » Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:50 pm

... monkey boy ...
I love it - link

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Re: Ballmer: "Vista is a work in progress"

Post by davijordan » Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:14 pm

Our local bookstore is selling books about MS Vista and some about win2k8s 40% off.

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Re: Ballmer: "Vista is a work in progress"

Post by snarkout » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:14 am

You gotta wonder what it's like to be that badly gassed after bouncing around for about 17 seconds...
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