New Windows release will boost Itanium
News In a conference call with the media on Friday morning, a giddy Bill Veghte, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Windows Server division, announced: "Today Windows Server 2003 was released to manufacturing.
[March 31, 2003, 11:50]
Windows 7 unlikely to cause leap in PC sales
News History would tell us that generally as you ship a Windows release into the market.the bump is very modest," Microsoft senior vice president Bill Veghte said at the UBS Global Technology and Services Conference.
[June 9, 2009, 9:44]
Windows 7 no certainty for 2009, warns Microsoft
News Top Windows executive Bill Veghte has said the company is telling PC makers that Windows 7 may or may not be ready in time for 2009's Christmas season. I'm telling them that it could go either way," Veghte told ZDNet UK's sister site, CNET News.com...
[January 8, 2009, 12:51]
Microsoft reshuffles Windows marketing unit
News A new Windows Business Group will be headed by Bill Veghte, a 17-year Microsoft veteran who has been serving as corporate vice president overseeing North American sales. Windows development remains under Steven Sinofsky, with both Sinofsky and...
[February 28, 2007, 8:57]
Microsoft: Windows 7 development on track
News At Microsoft's financial analysts meeting on Thursday, Windows unit head Bill Veghte said that Windows 7 development remains on track. The product is tracking very, very well," Veghte said. Veghte also discussed Windows Vista.
[July 25, 2008, 8:36]
Windows 7 confirmed for 2009 launch
News We are tracking well to a Windows 7 holiday," Microsoft senior vice president Bill Veghte said in an interview. Veghte plans to make a similar statement in a speech at Microsoft's TechEd event in Los As recently as January, Veghte was saying...
[May 12, 2009, 9:43]
Sinofsky named as Windows division president
News He had been jointly running the Windows business with senior vice president Bill Veghte, with Sinofsky leading the engineering team and Veghte running the business side. Veghte is slated to move to a new, unspecified role within Microsoft.
[July 9, 2009, 10:09]
Vista shifts 20 million copies
News We are encouraged to see such a positive consumer response to Windows Vista right out of the gate," corporate vice president Bill Veghte said in a statement on Monday. In an interview, Windows marketing director Bill Mannion said that the upgrade...
[March 27, 2007, 10:43]
Multiple versions of Windows 7 planned
News We're going to focus on two versions," Microsoft senior vice president Bill Veghte said in an interview, noting that those two versions are likely to account for 80 percent of Windows 7 sales. Veghte says it comes down to the fact there are just so...
[February 4, 2009, 9:20]
Windows 7 due Jan 2010 - we know!
Blog Much hoopla on the intarwebs about a letter sent out on Monday from Bill Veghte, senior vice president of online services and Windows Business Group, to MS's customers. The letter reiterates what we already know: XP is supposed to cease sales as of...
[June 25, 2008, 12:52]
Microsoft does open source u-turn
News We love the concept of shared source," said Bill Veghte, vice president of the Windows Server Group. We need to take a balanced tone," said Microsoft's Veghte, the man assigned by CEO Steve Ballmer to come up with a competitive strategy toward Linux.
[October 14, 2002, 15:27]
Microsoft announces launch date for Windows 7
News To reach that milestone, Microsoft plans to wrap up development of the operating system by the middle or end of next month, senior vice president Bill Veghte said in an interview. The feedback from the release candidate has been good," Veghte said.
[June 3, 2009, 8:28]
USB could be answer to Windows 7 netbook dilemma
News In an interview on Thursday, senior vice president Bill Veghte said that Microsoft had nothing to announce on that front. Microsoft is considering offering Windows 7 on a thumb drive to allow netbook owners to more easily upgrade their machines, a...
[June 26, 2009, 15:36]
Microsoft Windows chief jumps ship for Juniper
News The company did not say how it plans to handle Windows duties, other than that Bill Veghte, senior vice president of the Online Services & Windows Business Group, and Steve Sinofsky, who runs engineering operations, would report to Ballmer.
[July 24, 2008, 8:27]
Vista still struggling to gain enterprise users
News Microsoft senior vice president Bill Veghte told ZDNet.co.uk sister site CNET News.com on Wednesday that, at the end of June, Vista was tracking slightly ahead of Windows XP in corporate adoption at the same stage in its life cycle.
[July 25, 2008, 9:01]
Microsoft suspends Windows 7 beta download limit
News Microsoft has been aiming to have the final version ready to be on PCs for this year's Christmas shopping season, but Windows boss Bill Veghte said it is still too soon to say whether the company will make that timeframe.
[January 12, 2009, 7:28]
Windows Starter to enter the netbook market
News In an interview this week, senior vice president Bill Veghte said Microsoft will place restrictions on the kinds of processors and screen resolutions that will be supported by Windows 7 Starter, but declined to detail the limitations.
[February 4, 2009, 8:25]
Windows 7 could be a touch too much
News Touch will roll out," said Microsoft senior vice-president Bill Veghte in an interview last week. There is a reason the first thing Microsoft chose to show publicly of Windows 7 was its support for touch input.
[July 2, 2009, 11:00]
Microsoft rejigs Windows division
News Bill Veghte, who had been the senior vice president in charge of that unit, is taking up a new role as head of North American sales, reporting to overall sales chief Kevin Johnson. Microsoft on Monday confirmed plans to reshuffle its Windows unit...
[December 16, 2003, 9:00]
Gartner: Skip Vista and wait for Windows 7
News Last Monday, the software maker's senior vice president for Windows, Bill Veghte, told TechEd attendees: "If you're just starting your testing of Vista, with the [Windows 7] release candidate and the quality of that offering, I would switch over...
[May 18, 2009, 15:31]
