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Apr 18, 08 - 08:10 am Comment from: JAYGEE

A work in progress? Maybe they should have done more work on it before it was released?

Apr 18, 08 - 08:13 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

Schubert can get away with leaving something unfinished.

And Ballmer, you're no Schubert.

Putting all the 'Microsoft sucks' talk aside for a moment, Vista is the first major release of Windows in almost a decade, and it's a 'work in progress'? What the hell is that? Any major software release has some bugs, but a 'work in progress'?

Apr 18, 08 - 08:15 am Comment from: flappo

he's more of a brahms and liszt

And get that - a move into PC hardware and "much broader horizons' than when Bill G and Paul Allen were in charge.

Methinks Ballmer is going to drive MS into oblivion within 5 years max.

Apr 18, 08 - 08:17 am Comment from: Grigori

And Ballmer keeps getting bigger too.

Apr 18, 08 - 08:19 am Comment from: TowerTone

More like a 'pork in regress'....

A work in progress is one thing, charging large amounts for it is another.

Apr 18, 08 - 08:21 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Macaday

There's no way he'll last that long. One more hose-job like Vista and I think shareholders might finally come to life and boot the guy out. Either that, or the angry mod at the gates will carry him off in chains and hang him from the 520 bridge and hurl Vista Capable™ notebooks at him.

MSFT shareholders deserve them.

Apr 18, 08 - 08:23 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Grigori

And LEON is getting...



Oh, forget it.

Apr 18, 08 - 08:27 am Comment from: Jay-Z

I love seeing people reap what they sow.

Apr 18, 08 - 08:30 am Comment from: MCCFR

C1…

Quotes from Airplane! Surely there's something else we can do?

just a few more years....

Apr 18, 08 - 08:30 am Comment from: Macromancer

I usually think of the words 'work in progress' as i sit on the can.

@ ChrissyOne

"There's no way he'll last that long. One more hose-job like Vista and I think shareholders might finally come to life ..."

That's exactly why he'll last at least that long, Windows 7 will be the hose-job, and it will take at least 7 years to be released. So Ballmer has 7 more.
Go Ballmer - you can do it!

Sounds like the Big Dig

Apr 18, 08 - 08:34 am Comment from: KingMel

When Jobs says that AppleTV is a 'hobby,' that means that it will evolve into something much bigger in a couple of years. When Ballmer says that Vista is a 'work in progress,' that means that you might as well resign yourself to years of patches in a vain hope that Windows 7 will cure everything...or get a Mac.

That's a hell of a price to pay to be a beta tester!
MDW play = "you have to pay to play"

Apr 18, 08 - 08:36 am Comment from: McIntosh

@ChrissyOne

A classical music reference! Yes! Someone still remembers it exists!

Apr 18, 08 - 08:36 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

Steve Jobs never tried to sell a 'hobby' as a flagship product.

He could just say that Vista is a hobby.

"There's nothing new here; everyone knows that Microsoft's been turtling Vista for years." Shouldn't that read turding?

Apr 18, 08 - 08:41 am Comment from: MCCFR

And on a serious note…

There are 4,000 Microsoft MVPs around the world, and nearly 1,800 of them gathered in Seattle this week for an annual summit. MVPs are technology experts who provide feedback to Microsoft about its products -- Ballmer said they are his favorite group to address.

Of course they're his favourite group: they're indoctrinated and won't ask awkward questions.

It's no different to the current President or any of prospective candidates, who only appear in front of screened audiences.

Apr 18, 08 - 08:46 am Comment from: shen

airplane (mis)quotes?

looks like vista user picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.....

Apr 18, 08 - 08:47 am Comment from: Uncle Al

@MCCFR

No, there's nothing we can do. And don't call me Shirley.

Vista to be renamed "Jam Tomorrow Special Edition" or is that Windows 7 ?

Apr 18, 08 - 08:48 am Comment from: LateRegistrant

That porcelain fixture is definitely not Vista-ready. Vista is much too big.

Apr 18, 08 - 08:49 am Comment from: Zune Tang®

I like it that "Vista is a work in progress". I'll remind you MAC lemmings that the richness of the experience isn't in the destination, but the journey.

Watching the masters at Microsoft refine and improve Vista is like watching Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel. Be assured that when this is all over Microsoft will have yet another masterpiece that puts Apple to shame. Again. I like to think of it this way: Apple is going to have a tough time further copying Vista because Vista is a moving target. Shrewd move by the geniuses in Redmond if you ask me.

Congratulations in advance to Steve Ballmer and Microsoft on a job well done.

Your potential. Our passion.™

Apr 18, 08 - 08:52 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ MCCFR

Yeah, we've kind of played that line to death. I couldn't bring myself to finish it. Call it a work in progress.

No point in mentioning these bats, I thought. Poor bastard will see them soon enough.

AWidgetIHaveNot,

Turtling:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=turtling

Apr 18, 08 - 08:52 am Comment from: Tommy Boy

@ KingMel: If MSFT actually patched Vista people wouldn't be complaining as much.

Vista has been out 17 months and just Service Pack 1 has been released.

Leopard has been out 7 months and 10.5.3 is imminent any day (that'll be 3 Leopard patches in addition to the 4 Tiger patches that were released between Vista's and Leopard's releases).

Apr 18, 08 - 08:57 am Comment from: Cubert

@C1,

"And Ballmer, you're no Schubert."

And he's no Cubert either. I can assure you of that.

Apr 18, 08 - 08:57 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

"There are 4,000 Microsoft MVPs around the world, and nearly 1,800 of them gathered in Seattle this week for an annual summit. MVPs are technology experts who provide feedback to Microsoft about its products -- Ballmer said they are his favorite group to address."

If the pigs were gathering in Seattle, I felt the Mac culture should be represented as well. And there was a certain bent appeal in the notion of running a savage burn on one Vista loving troll, and then just wheeling across town and pwning another. Me and 1800 ranking developers from all over America. Why not? Move confidently into their midst...

@ZuneTang:
"I like it that "Vista is a work in progress". I'll remind you MAC lemmings that the richness of the experience isn't in the destination, but the journey."

yeah, but does Ballmer have to take us through all seven levels?

I like it that "Vista is a work in progress". I'll remind you PC lemmings that the richness of the experience isn't in the destination, but the journey to the toilet.

Watching the masters at Apple refine and improve Leopard is like watching Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel. Be assured that when this is all over Apple will have yet another masterpiece that puts Microsoft to shame. Again. I like to think of it this way: Microsoft is going to have a tough time further copying Leopard because Leopard is a moving target. Shrewd move by the geniuses in Cupertino if you ask me.

Congratulations in advance to Steve Jobs and Apple on a job well done.

Think Different™

Apr 18, 08 - 09:06 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

Let's get down to brass tacks. How much for the ape?

Apr 18, 08 - 09:13 am Comment from: madgunde

"yeah, but does Ballmer have to take us through all seven levels?"
@bluestreak
lol! That was awesome, thanks!

Apr 18, 08 - 09:15 am Comment from: Buster

Geez I had a work in progress this morning but unlike MDN's photo, I flushed it.

Apr 18, 08 - 09:18 am Comment from: Fred Mertz

If we're ever going to get out of here alive, we're going to need some golf shoes.

Hey, MDN's "Emoticons" works again!!!

Apr 18, 08 - 09:21 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

Impossible to walk in the muck. No footing at all.

Apr 18, 08 - 09:21 am Comment from: Wingsy

The essence of what Ballmer said is that Vista is a work in progress, but he didn't use those words so why is the headline quoting him as such? I've seen it on other web sites too so it isn't all MDN's doing. Web journalism.... sheesh.

Apr 18, 08 - 09:24 am Comment from: ken1w

I can't believe the CEO called his flagship product "a work in progress." Steve Balmer is Apple's best friend.

Apr 18, 08 - 09:31 am Comment from: TexasAg03

"'It's a very important piece of work. We did a lot of things right and have a lot of things we need to learn from. You never want to let five years go between releases,' he said," Gohring reports.

This could be said of going to the bathroom. It's important and I usually get a lot of things right (finishing, wiping, etc...). Sometimes I learn something (don't eat that again) and I CERTAINLY wouldn't go five years between "releases". However, the end product is still crap and it stinks, no matter how much Glade you spray.

Even Apple's "hobby" functions better than M$'s "work in progress".

In other words, we are all beta testers for Microsoft.

Apr 18, 08 - 09:45 am Comment from: UltraVisitor

A work in progress? How much more failure should we expect from the finished product?

Apr 18, 08 - 09:46 am Comment from: HMCIV

Maybe Vista just needs a little more fiber...

As much as I can´t stand Ballmer, don´t namecall him on behalf of his look or bodily shape. That´s just rude and, actually, a wee bit childish.