Microsoft CEO: Windows Vista on track
(AP)
Updated: 2006-05-26 10:41 Microsoft Corp. Chief
Executive Steve Ballmer said the Windows Vista operating system is still on
track for early January shipment.
"This design track (is) for a January shipment, but we're going to see what
kind of feedback we get from users," Ballmer told reporters Thursday on the
sidelines of the Seoul Digital Forum, a three-day gathering of leading figures
in the technology industry.
"We've got still a lot of time, but we're going to work and make sure it's an
absolutely high-quality product," he said.
Windows Vista is Microsoft's first major update to the company's flagship
operating system since Windows XP was released in late 2001.
Microsoft said in March it would delay the release the consumer version of
Vista until January 2007, missing the holiday sales season and throwing some PC
makers and retailers into turmoil.
Ballmer also took the opportunity to clarify remarks he made Wednesday in
Tokyo, suggesting they were misinterpreted in some news reports that said Vista
could be delayed another few weeks.
"I said yesterday that Vista was on track to ship in the first part of next
year — January as we had said," Ballmer said. "But I also emphasized that the
most important thing is getting quality right.
"I was asked an unusual question and I think my answer was fine, but I don't
think it was interpreted correctly," he said.
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