Steve Ballmer Admits Vista is a “Work In Progress”

More than a year after Windows Vista’s release, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and millions of sales later Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer admits Windows Vista to be a “work in progress”.

Windows Vista: A work in progress. [Laughter, applause.] 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. Can we just sort of kiss that stone and move on? Because it turns out many things become problematic when you have those long release cycles.

via Todd Bishop

So essentially Windows Vista (alpha) was prematurely released to prevent 5 year release cycles, nothing more nothing less. Early Vista adopters, do you feel cheated now that you know?)

Most of his speech was half-coherent but one other mildly important admission was - “And we have a lot of customers that are choosing to stay with Windows XP.” He will make XP available for sometime (he is forced to basically) but I couldn’t get for how long.