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Kent Sharkey12-Dec-13 6:35
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NewsNokia hit with $3.4 billion tax bill on Indian factory, could hold up Microsoft acquisition Pin
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NewsSteve Ballmer: Longhorn-Vista was the "single biggest mistake I made" as Microsoft CEO Pin
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Chris Maunder11-Dec-13 9:20
cofounderChris Maunder11-Dec-13 9:20 
I'm sorry: Vista was his biggest mistake? You're kidding me.

Vista was a mess because it was so late and they handled the bad publicity terribly, but they recovered quickly and produced their best OS ever in Windows 7. Windows 8 was not only hamstrung and driven on the road side of the road (to mix metaphors) by internal politics, they haven't recovered with Windows 8.1. Worse: their timing of releasing it on the crest of a move towards tablets and mobile devices was truly awful and it has directly contributed to a decline in PC sales for the first time ever.

I can't help but think there's a little stock-price concern in his reticence to name the current selling Windows OS as his biggest mistake. Regardless of the technical merits of Windows 8 and the need for an OS to move forward and keep up with hardware, I feel the handling of the Windows 8 product has been a much larger issue for Microsoft than Vista ever was.
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