Ballmer: It's OK to wait for Windows 7

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Some companies are planning to skip Windows Vista, and that's OK, according to Steve Ballmer. But Microsoft's CEO hopes that those companies come back for Windows 7.

Ballmer said that "if people want to wait they really can," ZDNet's Larry Dignan reports. "But I'd definitely deploy Vista," he said.

Speaking on Thursday at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo conference in Orlando, Ballmer defended Vista and noted that "the adoption rate of Vista is two times faster than XP at two years in."

"Our next release of Windows will be compatible with Vista. The key is let's get on with it. We'll be ready when you want to deploy Windows 7."


Read more:- Ballmer: It's OK to wait for Windows 7 | Business Tech - CNET News

 

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Ballmer: Windows 7

"Windows Vista is good, Windows 7 is Windows Vista with clean-up in user interface [and] improvements in performance," Ballmer said. "Look, I'm not encouraging anybody to wait, I'd go ahead and deploy it right away. We didn't have to go in an incompatible direction to make big strides forward."

Ballmer also took exception to the idea that Windows 7 will be a minor release or a spit polish on Vista. "It's a real release," he said, "because it's a lot more work than a minor release. It turns out you can [do] more than just a minor release in what is essentially a two-and-a-half year period of time. There's no reason to do just, quote, a minor release, in two-and-a-half years."

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im starting to get excited now...... im over the moon with x64 Vista but if i keep hearing ''how much of an improvement W7 is over Vista'' i may have to build a new rig for it

SK

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

im starting to get excited now...... im over the moon with x64 Vista but if i keep hearing ''how much of an improvement W7 is over Vista'' i may have to build a new rig for it

SK

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Later Ted

 

[smarteyeball]

...the magic words are "Service Pack". Everyone loves a service pack.