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04/17/2008, 11:15pm, EDT
Thursday, April 17th
MSFT to expand virtualization, search, services
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today labeled Windows Vista "a work in progress", sitting between rumblings that the company would continue support for XP for OEM platforms and UMPCs, and constant assurance that the next incarnation of Windows is on its way. According to Yahoo the statement came at an annual event in Seattle as Ballmer addressed many questions and concerns over Microsoft's next generation operating system.
"It's a very important piece of work," Ballmer said. "We did a lot of things right and have a lot of things we need to learn from. You never want to let five years go between releases."
Ballmer announced that Microsoft has big plans for both the virtualization and search markets, as well as the underused hosting service market.
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With XP and more than 2Gigs of RAM, people are right back to the bad old days of extended memory, fer cryin out loud.
You gotta have the Ballmers to do the write thing. Write a clean 64 bit OS and then virtualize everything: DOS, Windows 3 to XP, everything.
"Work in Progress" = "Unmitigated disaster which we are trying to distance ourselves from while saving face"
Success has 1000 fathers; failure is an orphan.
"It's a very important piece of work,"
It's a piece of work alright, and it's been very important to Apple's rise in market share as Windows users flee from Vista hell.