Ballmer to Wall St: we always back a winner
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| At about this point, investors must have been hankering for the security
| of Office, and client and server operating systems. With Windows Vista
| bedevilled by delays, Ballmer promised: "We will never repeat this
| experience with Windows again. We will never have a five-year gap
| between flagship products."
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| Pressed to explain what the company has done to avoid delays, Ballmer
| said - chiefly - it had learned the classic lesson of promising too much
| in one go. He said he shared this mistake jointly with Bill Gates,
| Craig Mundie chief research and strategy officer and Jim Allchin,
| co-president for platforms and services. "We tried to incubate too many
| new things and integrate them simultaneously rather than let them bake.
| There was too much complexity. We worked down that path for a while and
| said it wouldn't work. We re-booted where we were.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/28/ballmer_multicore_investments/
That last line opens the door to many jokes.
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