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Ballmer Calls Vista 'A Work In Progress'
shanen tips us to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer story about comments from Steve Ballmer at a conference earlier this week during which he referred to Vista as "a work in progress." He also admitted that the 5-year release cycle wasn't a good idea. Despite the approaching deadline for the end of XP sales, Ballmer's remarks about the older operating system were more ambiguous: "Vista is bigger than XP. It's going to stay bigger than XP. We have to make sure it doesn't get bigger still, and that the performance and that the battery life and that the compatibility, we're driving on the things that we need to drive hard to improve. I know we're going to continue to get feedback from people on how long XP should be available. We've got some opinions on that, we've expressed our views. ... I'm always interested in hearing from you on these and other issues."
Because linux would never make you run not fully tested code? Lol
Wow i got modded troll fast i guess i should elaborate. Vista gets jabbed for releasing a product that is under development. Then someone suggests linux instead.
Linux is CONSTANTLY under developement it is almost a living thing it is evolving all the time. I didn't say this was a bad thing. I just thought the switch suggestion was ironic.
... is like calling that oversized, rock-hard constipated turd a "work in progress" because you managed to get it half way out.
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
Innovation: Copying
User friendly: User hostile
Work in progress: Making the customers pay to beta test.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
IMHO