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Microsoft CEO says he anticipates the OS launch will unfold as planned, hedging by adding: "But that will go to the courts now."
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To my knowledge this is the first time ever Ballmer has
acknowledge a deadline and Vista. Microsoft five year old OS that
hasn't been released yet.
No wonder why their stock is underperforming.. I mean is this guy
doing his job?
To my knowledge this is the first time ever Ballmer has
acknowledge a deadline and Vista. Microsoft five year old OS that
hasn't been released yet.
No wonder why their stock is underperforming.. I mean is this guy
doing his job?
could read what i wrote and understand the gist of it..
could read what i wrote and understand the gist of it..
The launch of the consumer version of Windows Vista could be pushed back past the stated January launch date, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday.
The OS was due to be launched this year but in March the company said it wouldn't get broad release until January 2007. Ballmer said Wednesday that the planned January launch may slip further based on feedback from a beta release program and the product road-maps of hardware vendors.
"We think we are on track for shipping early in the year. We've talked about the month, but we get a chance to critically assess all of the feedback we'll get from this beta release then confirm or move the launch date a few weeks," he said at a news conference in Tokyo.
Microsoft launched the second beta version of Windows Vista on Tuesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle.
"We put the beta out today, so we should start getting feedback right away," said Ballmer.
"The other thing, frankly, which we are discussing with NEC and other hardware partners is when would they really like it - early January, late January, February - so it depends on when the next roll-over, the next turn of the machine cycle will be and that would be the best time to ship it based on beta feedback," he said.
Timing the launch of the operating system with the product road-maps of PC makers is important, said Ballmer. Microsoft delayed the Vista launch from November to January to avoid putting the product out during the year-end sales season when a change in PC line-ups and operating systems could cause problems for vendors.
WINHec Seattle May 2006
Martyn Williams
The launch of the consumer version of Windows Vista could be pushed back past the stated January launch date, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday.
The OS was due to be launched this year but in March the company said it wouldn't get broad release until January 2007. Ballmer said Wednesday that the planned January launch may slip further based on feedback from a beta release program and the product road-maps of hardware vendors.
"We think we are on track for shipping early in the year. We've talked about the month, but we get a chance to critically assess all of the feedback we'll get from this beta release then confirm or move the launch date a few weeks," he said at a news conference in Tokyo.
Microsoft launched the second beta version of Windows Vista on Tuesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle.
"We put the beta out today, so we should start getting feedback right away," said Ballmer.
"The other thing, frankly, which we are discussing with NEC and other hardware partners is when would they really like it - early January, late January, February - so it depends on when the next roll-over, the next turn of the machine cycle will be and that would be the best time to ship it based on beta feedback," he said.
Timing the launch of the operating system with the product road-maps of PC makers is important, said Ballmer. Microsoft delayed the Vista launch from November to January to avoid putting the product out during the year-end sales season when a change in PC line-ups and operating systems could cause problems for vendors.
WINHec Seattle May 2006
Martyn Williams
Is Microsoft's Ballmer Out?
Wall Street Speculation Related to Flagging Stock Price`
By: .NETDJ News Desk
May. 19, 2006 01:15 PM
There's speculation on Wall Street that Microsoft is going to dump CEO Steve Ballmer and hold him responsible for the company's ills like not being able to get its stock price to move off the dime. There's no speculation about who would succeed him yet, just a shiver of apprehension when Bill Gates' name comes up.
This speculation comes at a time when Microsoft is in on of its periodic "student body left" changes of direction, where it moves its metaphorical crosshairs to whomever is perceived as the latest Big Threat to its business. Microsoft, under the leadership of Ballmer and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, first pulled this trick against Apple, GEM, and the graphical user interface in the 80s, moved onto a suite of application software developers, vanquished Netscape (something Ballmer recently bragged about at a Churchill Club meeting in San Jose), and now has decided that Google represents the latest threat to its business.
The latest speculation comes at a time when one of the other great alpha executives, Scott McNealy, was notable by his absence at the recent JavaOne conference in San Francisco. McNealy's toothy exuberance and attitude was sorely missing at this year's event, during which Sun offered a very meek middle-of-the-road approach to the "open source Java" question, while doing nothing to allay investors' fears that it is not offering the price/performance edge in its bread-and-butter hardware anymore.
(The industry's other two great alphas, Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison, appear to be getting on nicely these days. And despite concerns about a cyclical slack in the PC industry, an emerging magna CEO, HP's Mark Hurd, seems more than secure in his position as the company announced very strong results after Hurd's first year on the job.)
Note: The Ballmer news first appeared at Client Server News
Published May. 19, 2006 Reads 3,688
Copyright © 2006 SYS-CON Media. All Rights Reserved.
Is Microsoft's Ballmer Out?
Wall Street Speculation Related to Flagging Stock Price`
By: .NETDJ News Desk
May. 19, 2006 01:15 PM
There's speculation on Wall Street that Microsoft is going to dump CEO Steve Ballmer and hold him responsible for the company's ills like not being able to get its stock price to move off the dime. There's no speculation about who would succeed him yet, just a shiver of apprehension when Bill Gates' name comes up.
This speculation comes at a time when Microsoft is in on of its periodic "student body left" changes of direction, where it moves its metaphorical crosshairs to whomever is perceived as the latest Big Threat to its business. Microsoft, under the leadership of Ballmer and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, first pulled this trick against Apple, GEM, and the graphical user interface in the 80s, moved onto a suite of application software developers, vanquished Netscape (something Ballmer recently bragged about at a Churchill Club meeting in San Jose), and now has decided that Google represents the latest threat to its business.
The latest speculation comes at a time when one of the other great alpha executives, Scott McNealy, was notable by his absence at the recent JavaOne conference in San Francisco. McNealy's toothy exuberance and attitude was sorely missing at this year's event, during which Sun offered a very meek middle-of-the-road approach to the "open source Java" question, while doing nothing to allay investors' fears that it is not offering the price/performance edge in its bread-and-butter hardware anymore.
(The industry's other two great alphas, Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison, appear to be getting on nicely these days. And despite concerns about a cyclical slack in the PC industry, an emerging magna CEO, HP's Mark Hurd, seems more than secure in his position as the company announced very strong results after Hurd's first year on the job.)
Note: The Ballmer news first appeared at Client Server News
Published May. 19, 2006 Reads 3,688
Copyright © 2006 SYS-CON Media. All Rights Reserved.