Commentary: Steve Ballmer interview strikes some interesting notes
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft head guru and CEO, did an interview for a newspaper recently, and the phrase “unqualified success” was thrown around an awful lot, without a whole lot of qualified data to support it.
For example: He stated Vista has sold 180 million copies (does that count licenses that came with systems, Steve?) and is an “unqualified success”. Never mind that its been snubbed by corporations as being ‘too unstable’, bashed by most users i’ve spoken with, and most mag reviews haven’t been very kind to it either. IMHO and based on the data presented there, Vista has been a huge commerical and critical failure, almost on par with Windows ME.
Same with the XBox 360. Another unqualified success, and another platform whose sales are slipping despite price cuts, WAY behind the Wii and with the PS3 now nipping at its heels. It’s been successful to be sure, but a total unqualified success? Not quite.
Office 2007: It’s a nice package, but its expensive, a total hog with system resources, and its required a lot of patching to get it to be really secure and stable. An unqualified success? Depends on the eye viewing it, I suppose.
More of the interview here: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Microsoft-CEO-Steve-Ballmer-on-Vistas-Unqualified-Success-64723.html
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