Posted on 05/27/2008 10:31:41 PM PDT by HAL9000
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Switching gears. Walt asks about Vista and the lousy reception it’s been given. Is Vista a failure?Ballmer: Vista is not a failure. Is it something we’d like to improve? Of course. Is it something that with 20/20 hindsight we’d do differently? Sure, he confesses. But Vista has sold a lot of copies, he adds.
Walt jumps in and asks about the percentage of Vista sales that result in downgrades to XP. Ballmer dodges. Gates looking a little depressed.
Walt asks if Vista has damaged with Windows brand.
Gates says Microsoft’s philosophy is to “do things better.” And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that, he notes. (Audience laughter.) There are plenty of lessons out of Vista–compatibility and other issues vendors are concerned about.
Ballmer says that according to consumer research, the No. 1 complaint about Vista was the change to the Windows user interface.
The conversation turns to Windows 7, which Microsoft hasn’t said too much about. Clearly, the company has learned from the media beating it took over the defeatured and perennially delayed Windows Vista. Indeed, in a post to the Windows Vista blog today, Microsoft’s Chris Flore noted that Microsoft is being very careful about releasing details about Windows 7. “What is a little different today is when and how we are talking about the next version of Windows,” Flore wrote. “So, why the change in approach? We know that when we talk about our plans for the next release of Windows, people take action. As a result, we can significantly impact our partners and our customers if we broadly share information that later changes. With Windows 7, we’re trying to more carefully plan how we share information with our customers and partners. This means sharing the right level of information at the right time depending on the needs of the audience.”
Well, apparently this is the right time and the right audience, because we’re about to get a Windows 7 demo (Oh, one more thing …. Here’s hoping Microsoft shares only those aspects of the new OS that it doesn’t end up de-featuring at a later date.)
Ballmer says what we’re about to see is “just a snippet” of Windows 7.
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Learn from you? Only that you’ll stop at nothing to twist the facts in defense of foreign products/hackers even criminals.
Yes, you have shown evidence of learning. Surprising, yes, but it has happened. Unfortunately, you have shown little ability to understand what you have learned.
Well I sure haven’t learned anything from you, since you’re still completely confused over the basics. Like I have already said several times, you should take up your complaints with the actual copyright and trademark owners. That’s all I can do for you at this point, but obviously your fear of the truth won’t let you.
As for the vile language, I tried to keep it as clean as possible. And besides, I'm just calling it as I sees it. A perusal of your postings show that your only interest here is defending Gates and Co.
It is common knowledge that companies employ, or otherwise engage people to go forth and blog, to do their bidding and spin their PR.
You fit that Bill (pun intended) to a "T".
Sorry if you don't like it, but a lot of us have grown weary of your FUD, just like Gates & Co.
Houston Redmond; you have a problem. Your minions are doing you a greater disservice than you are yourselves. And these days, that's saying something.
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