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  Ballmer Analyzes Microsoft's 'One Big' Vista Mistake
Time: 00:57 EST/05:57 GMT | News Source: InformationWeek | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

Microsoft made one big, wrong decision that led to Vista's delays, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts during his meeting with them last week. The company took a Big Bang approach and tried to overhaul all of its operating system's core components simultaneously, an approach that eventually led to a fiery development crash.

"We made an upfront decision that was, I'll say, incredibly strategic and brilliant and wise -- and was not implementable," Ballmer said. "We tried to incubate too many new innovations and integrate them simultaneously, as opposed to letting them bake and then integrating them, which is essentially where we wound up."

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#1 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 8/2/2006 9:16:40 AM
"We made an upfront decision that was, I'll say, incredibly strategic and brilliant and wise -- and was not implementable," Ballmer said.

Way to toot your own horn. Yep, even when they fail, they're brilliant!

#2 By 8556 (12.217.111.92) at 8/2/2006 2:30:57 PM
"We tried to incubate too many new innovations.."

Translated as "fix too many bugs and copy too many OS X features".

#3 By 37047 (216.191.227.68) at 8/2/2006 3:17:48 PM
"We tried to incubate too many new innovations and integrate them simultaneously, as opposed to letting them bake and then integrating them, which is essentially where we wound up."

Translation: Windows Vista is a half-baked OS. :-)

#4 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 8/2/2006 3:50:16 PM
Geez I hate corp-speak, or is it crap-speak!? "Incubate too many new innovations"... as opposed to those old innovations. And does anyone actually talk like that? When was the last time you used the word incubate outside the realm of chickens and eggs?

#5 By 17996 (131.107.0.82) at 8/2/2006 7:27:30 PM
#3 - No, Vista is not half-baked. What Ballmer was referring to was the old, pre-reset Longhorn. That project would have been half-baked (e.g. developing Windows Explorer on top of the still-baking Avalon which itself was built on the still-baking .NET 2.0).

When they did the reset, the started over with the fully-baked Server 03 SP1, and then built new features only on top of fully-baked technologies. This is, for example, why none of the OS itself uses .NET 3.0 (WinFX)--those technologies are still baking in parallel with Vista.

And as Vista approached beta 2, they further cut out stuff that looked like it wouldn't be done baking in time (e.g. the Castle networking feature).

The key question here is who made that "one mistake". My bet (as I posted on here a while back)? Bill Gates himself, who at the time had just become "chief software architect" and was taking a more "hands-on" role in Windows development.

#6 By 8062 (70.37.30.235) at 8/2/2006 8:04:58 PM
"We tried to incubate too many new innovations and integrate them simultaneously, as opposed to letting them bake and then integrating them, which is essentially where we wound up."

Translation..."go screw yourself...".

#7 By 3339 (72.200.128.183) at 8/3/2006 10:12:26 PM
"And as Vista approached beta 2, they further cut out stuff that looked like it wouldn't be done baking in time (e.g. the Castle networking feature). "

So in order to get it fully baked they reduced the serving size from a whole pie to a slice of pie. Great defense.

#8 By 32132 (142.32.208.232) at 8/4/2006 7:37:22 PM
"So in order to get it fully baked they reduced the serving size from a whole pie to a slice of pie."

But you'll get the rest of the pie over the next year or 2 for no additional charge.

If you had bought an Applie Pie, they charge 129$ per slice and claim its a full pie!

This post was edited by NotParker on Friday, August 04, 2006 at 19:38.

#9 By 17996 (66.235.19.95) at 8/7/2006 2:49:51 AM
#7 - It's more like a restaurant deciding to remove a couple of varieties of pie from their menu. There's still plenty of new features on the Vista menu.

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