“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.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: There’s nothing new here; everyone knows that Microsoft’s been turtling Vista for years.
@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 ?
That porcelain fixture is definitely not Vista-ready. Vista is much too big.
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
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Congratulations in advance to Steve Ballmer and Microsoft on a job well done.
Your potential. Our passion.™
@ 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
@ 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).
@C1,
“And Ballmer, you’re no Schubert.”
And he’s no Cubert either. I can assure you of that.
“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™
Let’s get down to brass tacks. How much for the ape?
“yeah, but does Ballmer have to take us through all seven levels?”
@bluestreak
lol! That was awesome, thanks!
Geez I had a work in progress this morning but unlike MDN’s photo, I flushed it.
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!!!
Impossible to walk in the muck. No footing at all.
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.
I can’t believe the CEO called his flagship product “a work in progress.” Steve Balmer is Apple’s best friend.
“‘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.
A work in progress? How much more failure should we expect from the finished product?
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.
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