Ballmer: Microsoft never recovered from Vista blow

"Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> wrote in message
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>> Hi, Smeee.
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>> As with the blind men and the elephant, each "observer" sees just a small
>> part of the whole and interprets it from his own perspective. Your
>> perspective is obvious. My perspective is as a 3-year mostly happy user
>> of Vista. Win7 is better, but Vista was very good - except for users who
>> expected it to be bad.
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>> What Ballmer actually said was that Vista never recovered from "a
>> word-of-mouth perspective", He never "confessed" (your word) that Vista
>> was not a good operating system.
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>> Quote from that link:
>> Mr Ballmer said: “We got some uneven reception when [Vista] first
>> launched in large part because we made some design decisions to improve
>> security at the expense of compatibility. I don’t think from a
>> word-of-mouth perspective we ever recovered from that.”
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>> RC
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>> R. C. White, CPA
>> San Marcos, TX
>> rc@grandecom.net
>> Microsoft Windows MVP
>> Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64
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> Seconded. I know many who fared well with Vista, me included..
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> Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
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You can add me to the list of people who never had a Vista problem. It has
been the best, most stable OS that I have ever used over the last 30 years.
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Ron P

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