Vista's Six Versions Finalised
News Microsoft has been planning for some time to offer higher-end versions of its OS with Vista.chief executive Steve Ballmer first noted that an Enterprise version was coming at a financial analysts' meeting last summer.
[February 27, 2006, 10:30]
Bill Gates Talks Vista And Linux
News Steve Ballmer. Well, Steve — Steve Sinofsky, you mean, or Steve Ballmer? In the second part of our two-part interview, Gates reveals his favourite feature in Windows Vista, why he'll keep pushing for a new file system, and the role of open source...
[November 20, 2006, 12:48]
Ballmer: It's OK To Skip Vista, Wait For Windows 7
News Speaking on Thursday at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo conference in Orlando, Florida, Ballmer defended Vista and noted that "the adoption rate of Vista is two times faster than XP at two years in". Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has said he...
[October 17, 2008, 9:00]
Ballmer: Vista Needs A Bigger Marketing Budget
News According to Ballmer, Windows is the company's biggest growth opportunity, which could, according to an analyst, be because large companies still prefer XP to Vista. Matthew Oostveen, software analyst at research firm IDC, said that Ballmer's...
[February 5, 2008, 9:02]
How Microsoft Can Make Windows 7 A Success
News Microsoft may continue to defend Vista, as Steve Ballmer did at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo on 16 October, but make no mistake: the company has already moved past Vista, psychologically and strategically.
[October 28, 2008, 12:03]
Top Ten Things Wrong With Zune
Blog Comment I’m not a ‘Ballmer,’ where I forbid my kids from using an iPod or Google. I do have three Windows machines (two running XP Pro, one running Vista), but I also have two Macs, and seventeen Linux machines (one client machine and a server farm of 16...
[November 27, 2006, 1:57]
The Hard Lessons Of Vista
News I've been around IBM, and I saw how IBM overdid it," Steve Ballmer said in a 2003 interview with The Seattle Times. Ballmer has made it clear that he wants an end to the days when all new product updates are "big bang" releases.
[March 23, 2006, 13:10]
IDF - More To Come
Blog You or I would be patted on the head and sent to St Ballmer's Home For The Terminally Bewildered, were we to present such a wonderful bouquet of messages as a strategy, But then, you or I don't have Microsoft's track record in this department.
[April 7, 2008, 10:06]
Seeking Microsoft's Next Billion Users
News Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer got Microsoft its first billion customers. The company has a number of efforts underway in the area, from the Starter Editions of Windows XP and Vista, to shared computers for classrooms, to research into turning a...
[October 16, 2007, 12:17]
Ballmer: Vista Delays Won't Be Repeated
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer wrapped up a meeting with financial analysts on Thursday by promising that the company would make sure it releases new Windows versions more quickly. Despite the desire to make Windows releases more frequent...
[July 28, 2006, 9:00]
Europe Won't Back Down On Vista
News Chris Heaton-Harris met with Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer at the company's campus in Seattle in August, after which he criticised the Commission's decision to fine Microsoft for antitrust violations in 2004.
[October 16, 2006, 17:20]
Software Jihad
Blog If I was a stockholder in Microsoft (and I'm not) I would hammer on Steve Ballmer to institute a world-wide campaign to extract every dollar possible from Windows XP before Windows 7 of 9 (or 7 of 10, whenever) comes out.
[November 2, 2008, 14:04]
"the Adoption Rate Of Vista Is Two Times Faster Than XP At Two Years In".
Talkback I see, and hear from these people through my work, and I would guess that 90% of them switched to vista, and then went back to XP because of driver problems, hardware, incompatibility, or their software won't work.
[October 20, 2008, 8:34]
