“As PC users clamor for Microsoft to continue to support Windows XP, company CEO Steve Ballmer called the Vista OS ‘a work in progress’ at an annual Seattle event on Thursday,” Nancy Gohring reports for IDG News Service.
“‘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.
“While Microsoft recently extended the date when the XP software will be available for low-cost PCs, it doesn’t plan to listen to some other complaints, including that Vista is too big. ‘Vista is bigger than XP and it’s gonna stay bigger than XP,” Ballmer said. “We have to make sure it doesn’t get bigger still,'” Gohring reports.
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MacDailyNews Take: There’s nothing new here; everyone knows that Microsoft’s been turtling Vista for years.
A work in progress? Maybe they should have done more work on it before it was released?
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’?
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.
And Ballmer keeps getting bigger too.
More like a ‘pork in regress’….
A work in progress is one thing, charging large amounts for it is another.
@ 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.
@ Grigori
And LEON is getting…
Oh, forget it.
I love seeing people reap what they sow.
C1…
Quotes from Airplane! Surely there’s something else we can do?
just a few more years….
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
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”
@ChrissyOne
A classical music reference! Yes! Someone still remembers it exists!
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?
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.
airplane (mis)quotes?
looks like vista user picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue…..