Mom Blasts Ballmer Over Kid's Vista Experience

Lucas123 writes "While on stage at a Gartner's ITxpo conference today, Ballmer got an ear-full from the mother of a 13-year-old girl who said after installing Vista on her daughter's computer she decided only two days later to switch back to XP because Vista was so difficult. Ballmer defended Vista saying: 'Your daughter saw a lot of value'; to which the mother replied: 'She's 13.' Ballmer said that Vista is bigger than XP, and 'for some people that's an issue, and it's not going to get smaller in any significant way in SP1. But machines are constantly getting bigger, and [it's] probably important to remember that as well.' Says the mother: 'Good, I'll let you come in and install it for me.'"

Comments

Haha.

[SatanicPuppy]

Yea, because only a monopoly can afford to ignore some random schmo's uninformed opinion.

Seriously. We all agree that Vista has issues; some of them are the problems you'd expect of a windows pre-SP1 release...Bad drivers, no drivers, bugs, etc. The rest of them are either here to stay, or able to be disabled. That's the same crap we always have to eat from a Windows release.

But the fact that some non-savvy mom and her gadget-loving 13 year old daughter don't like it is supposed to mean something? When was the last time you asked someone like that for OS advice? This same chick will be doing the same whining in 10 years because she doesn't want to switch off Vista for XPII, or whatever the next release is, because she can't handle the "new" windows.