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.
"Certainly, you never want to let five years go between releases... because it turns out many things become problematic when you have those long release cycles. The design point, what you should be targeting, we can never let that happen again. We had some things that we can't just set the dial back that I think people wish we could."
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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.
"Certainly, you never want to let five years go between releases... because it turns out many things become problematic when you have those long release cycles. The design point, what you should be targeting, we can never let that happen again. We had some things that we can't just set the dial back that I think people wish we could."
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I am hoping the next os is based on Windows 2008. Take the internels of that and combine it with what makes xp good and update movie maker,media player and media center and the gui and you will have a great successor to xp that runs really smooth and a small memory foot print .
I am hoping the next os is based on Windows 2008. Take the internels of that and combine it with what makes xp good and update movie maker,media player and media center and the gui and you will have a great successor to xp that runs really smooth and a small memory foot print .
Windows Server 2008 and Vista are the same core operating system aren't they?
I am hoping the next os is based on Windows 2008. Take the internels of that and combine it with what makes xp good and update movie maker,media player and media center and the gui and you will have a great successor to xp that runs really smooth and a small memory foot print .
Windows Server 2008 and Vista are the same core operating system aren't they?
They are supposed to be but many people are stating that win 2008 runs much better on the same systems as vista .So some people started using 2008 as home os's .
Those people are delusional. Win2k8 is Vista SP1, and it is faster than pre-SP1 Vista. It is not faster than Vista SP1 once you disable the same services and patch TCP/IP for unlimited concurrent connections.
Contrary to this, Win2K3 is indeed faster than XP 32 because it uses a different and improved kernel, the same one used by XP 64. The difference in all these cases isn't that dramatic though, not for desktop apps.
I know an OS is always "work in progress" but usually you don't qualify it this way
I know an OS is always "work in progress" but usually you don't qualify it this way
Then technically xp is a work in progress also since there is still a sp coming out right?
Our resolution here is to see if the next version of Windows will preserve these positives, and turn the negatives over.
As far as MS "listening", we'll see.
If only I could run my software natively in Linux...
Exactly. That's why I asked for an alternate source, otherwise I have to assume that it's the PC Pro author doing exactly what you said. The source article doesn't reference any other sources. Even unprofessional journalists could take to time to verify what they're writing.
"I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before i voted against it."
Just the thoughts of a warped mind.
Microsoft has learned from every single product they ever released.
Vista is the first major release of Windows in almost a decade, and it's a 'work in progress'???
If Vista is anything to go by, MS is in the Special-Ed class, and has had a serious learning disability since 1995.
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