It's just another release on the road to getting to a fully featured, complete version. |
It's very important for Microsoft to win the hearts and minds of the developers. |
Microsoft hasn't been the greatest on delivery times to begin with. I don't know if this [one] makes things any worse. |
Microsoft is always talking about integrated innovation, ... This doesn't appear to be integrated innovation. We don't seem to have a single story on search. |
On some monitors and graphics cards, the controls become almost impossible to work with. |
Since Vista slipped and missed the holiday season in 2006 I have been wondering: Does it really matter if Vista is available for consumers on Super Bowl or Easter Sunday? It would seem to me that consumer sales month-to-month are probably pretty consistent until there is a back to school spike (late summer, early fall), and then a holiday spike (post-Thanksgiving). |
They could have gambled a lot longer and said, 'Let's just be quiet about it,' but they stood up to the mark. |
This whole lifecycle plan of theirs doesn't obligate them to do anything. Look at Windows XP SP2. Microsoft made two major changes to RPC and DCOM [in SP2] for security reasons, but said they were 'architectural changes.' They weren't required, they said, to make those changes available in Windows 2000, which at that time was still in mainstream support. |
What I have to contrast it with is Apple. They only have one version of OS X. |
While they were building a big company, lo and behold, it became a big company, ... There's a great deal of frustration about how long it takes to make decisions and the amount of time people spend in meetings. |
While they were building a big company, lo and behold, it became a big company. There's a great deal of frustration about how long it takes to make decisions and the amount of time people spend in meetings. |
You can't take the point of view that only ISVs need to test this. |
You end up with a number that's as accurate as an EPA mileage rating 'Your mileage may vary,' |
You need to be able to show people, 'Ah, but you really need this,' ... To do that, you need these third parties to have gotten excited about it and to have gone and built their applications. |