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Vista is a Work in Progress, Says Ballmer
Techtree News Staff, Apr 21, 2008 1643 hrs ISTBallmer's statement is bound to draw a mixed response; it may soothe some frayed nerves only on account of being upfront yet it is unlikely to erase the general dissatisfaction with Vista.
Possibly the hottest topic for a couple of days to come... That Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously called the much-hyped Microsoft Windows Vista a "Work in Progress" at Microsoft's Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) conference in Seattle last week.
As Ballmer said during the conference, "there's still work to be done on Vista: 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," promptly adding, "Vista is bigger than XP. It's going to stay bigger than XP." As if he needed to convince himself...
Just about a month back, Microsoft released Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to fix a number of issues said to plague the one-year old operating system. Ballmer's statement is bound to draw a mixed response; it may soothe some frayed nerves only on account of being upfront yet it is unlikely to erase the general dissatisfaction with Vista.
As Ballmer said at the conference, "Microsoft has been working on some essential steps for Windows Vista, nevertheless, the most important thing will still remain customer feedback: Top of mind for me, for Ray [Ozzie], for the senior team here, is making sure that we continue to drive forward and take the good work that we did in Vista, take the chance for improvement and progress, and drive forward."
Although it's strange for one of the world's biggest companies to release one of its biggest products and then call it a "Work in Progress" a year down the line; strange -- yes, but not surprising.
The Seattle conference had about 1,800 Microsoft MVPs from across the globe; MVPs is a name given by Microsoft to technology experts who provide feedback to the company about its products.
"There are still a lot of customers using Windows XP, and at the same time, there are a lot of customers who opted for Windows Vista. As long as those are both important options, we will be sensitive and we will listen and we will hear that," said Ballmer at the conference -- about the so-called trade-off between two of the company's most iconic products.
As Ballmer said during the conference, "there's still work to be done on Vista: 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," promptly adding, "Vista is bigger than XP. It's going to stay bigger than XP." As if he needed to convince himself...
Just about a month back, Microsoft released Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to fix a number of issues said to plague the one-year old operating system. Ballmer's statement is bound to draw a mixed response; it may soothe some frayed nerves only on account of being upfront yet it is unlikely to erase the general dissatisfaction with Vista.
As Ballmer said at the conference, "Microsoft has been working on some essential steps for Windows Vista, nevertheless, the most important thing will still remain customer feedback: Top of mind for me, for Ray [Ozzie], for the senior team here, is making sure that we continue to drive forward and take the good work that we did in Vista, take the chance for improvement and progress, and drive forward."
Although it's strange for one of the world's biggest companies to release one of its biggest products and then call it a "Work in Progress" a year down the line; strange -- yes, but not surprising.
The Seattle conference had about 1,800 Microsoft MVPs from across the globe; MVPs is a name given by Microsoft to technology experts who provide feedback to the company about its products.
"There are still a lot of customers using Windows XP, and at the same time, there are a lot of customers who opted for Windows Vista. As long as those are both important options, we will be sensitive and we will listen and we will hear that," said Ballmer at the conference -- about the so-called trade-off between two of the company's most iconic products.
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