Ballmer describes Vista as “work in progress”

Written on April 18, 2008 – 12:49 pm | by GoogleBot |

Steve Ballmer has admitted that Vista is “a work in progress”, and admitted the company has to learn lessons from its release.

Speaking at the Most Valuable Professional Global Summit in Seattle, Ballmer resisted calls for a slimmed down Windows 7: “Vista is bigger than XP and it’s gonna stay bigger than XP. We have to make sure it doesn’t get bigger still.”

However, Ballmer went on to admit that it had taken too long to get Vista out the door and admitted it had caused problems: “Vista is 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.

Full story: pcpro.co.uk

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