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Ballmer Confesses To Vista’s Sins

Posted by on May 20, 2010 | One Comment

Anyone who says Vista was not a total mess was simply not paying attention. While it is accurate to point out that Vista shaped up well enough toward its most recent SP release, Vista’s initial release was TERRIBLE.

And now we see Ballmer sort of admitting this, on the coattail of the successful Windows 7 release. Honestly, I cannot say that I blame him for waiting. After all, why admit that a product release stinks until you have the better option ready go?

The one take away from the ComputerWorld article that I think really hits the nail on the head was the point about what Vista was designed to do. Vista was too much hype and not enough follow through. Poorly executed, it tried to do entirely too much. In a single release.

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  • http://www.justenrobertson.com Justen

    Not only did it try to do too much, it only did half of what it was initially advertised to do, most of that poorly, and it took several years longer than expected to release. Actually most of the blame lies on the MPAA for forcing Microsoft to completely overhaul Vista’s kernel to support their asinine low-level DRM scheme – and the rest on Microsoft for being stupid enough / cowardly enough to do it. That was probably the biggest factor in the Vista disaster.