Steve Ballmer reconoce que Vista no está terminado

Aunque parezca imposible lo ha dicho ante la cúpula de los desarrolladores premium de Microsoft (MVP), estas son sus palabras:

Bueno, esas no son exactamente, sino las siguientes :

“Windows Vista: un trabajo aún sin terminar. [Risas, aplausos.] Es una parte muy importante de nuestro trabajo, y creemos que hemos hecho cosas bien, y hay otras muchas de las que debemos aprender. Ciertamente, no queremos volver a dejar pasar cinco años entre versiones. ¿Podríamos dejar este tema hasta aquí y avanzar? Porque hay muchas cosas que se vuelven problemáticas cuando manejas estos tiempos. (…) Vista es más maduro que XP. Y así seguirá siendo.

(…) Mientras tanto, tenemos algunos usuarios — muchos — que usan Vista. Muchos. Y tenemos también muchos que se quieren quedar en Windows XP. Y mientras así sea, tendremos consideración y los escucharemos. Recibí un correo hace poco que me decía que ya no podría conseguir XP. Y le respondimos que sigue disponible. Y sé que seguiremos recibiendo feedback de la gente preguntándonos hasta que fecha vamos a mantener el soporte de XP. Tenemos nuestra opinión, y hemos dado nuestras visiones acerca de ello.”

Extracto traducido tomado de Fayerwayer.com.

Discurso original en inglés:

“Windows Vista: A work in progress. [Laughter, applause.] A very important piece of work, and I think we did a lot of things right, and I think we have a lot of things we need to learn from. Certainly, you never want to let five years go between releases. Can we just sort of kiss that stone and move on? Because it turns out many things become problematic when you have those long release cycles. The design point, what you should be targeting. We can’t ever let that happen again. We had some things that we can’t just set the dial back, but I think people wish we could. Vista is bigger than XP. It’s going to stay bigger than XP. We have to make sure it doesn’t get bigger still, and that the performance and that the battery life and that the compatibility, we’re driving on the things that we need to drive hard to improve.

And yet, we did take some important big steps forward with Vista. So, I know I can get a lot of feedback from this crowd. The No. 1 point of feedback always for MVPs is on Windows. I know I can get a lot of feedback. I bet if I look I can get a little bit of good feedback. I’m sure I can get a lot of constructive feedback. And believe me, top of mind for me, for Ray [Ozzie], for the senior team here, is making sure that we continue to drive forward and take the good work that we did in Vista, take the chance for improvement and progress and drive forward.

In the meantime, we have some customers — a lot of customers — using Vista. A lot of customers. And we have a lot of customers that are choosing to stay with Windows XP. And as long as those are both important options, we will be sensitive and we will listen and we will hear that. I got a piece of mail from a customer the other day that talked about not being able to get XP anymore. We responded, XP is still available. And I know we’re going to continue to get feedback from people on how long XP should be available. We’ve got some opinions on that, we’ve expressed our views. .. I’m always interested in hearing from you on these and other issues. So the desktop business, it’s our heart, it’s our soul, we continue to drive forward from this foundation.”

Para que no digan que no se los había dicho.

http://www.programasfull.net/review-de-microsoft-windows-vista-vt36129.html

Segun parece Vista está destinado a ser el Windows ME 2, aunque en realidad no es tan malo como lo pintan, solo que los que lo han comprado han servido de beta testers .

Noticia original en inglés:

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/136739.asp