Ballmer: Windows 7 is Vista, just 'a lot better'
PC World | at | by Mike
Windows 7 will be like Windows Vista, but more so, MicrosoftCEO Steve Ballmer said today as he defended the first two years of Vista and claimed its successor will be a major release.
"[Windows 7], it's Windows Vista, a lot better," said Ballmer during a 45-minute question-and-answer session hosted by a pair of Gartner Inc. analysts at the research firm's annual Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Fla. today. The interview was later posted as a webcast on the Gartner site. Ballmer was responding to a question from Gartner's Neil MacDonald, who asked how Microsoft would walk the line between doing too much with Windows 7 -- thus, risking the kind of compatibility problems that plagued Vista early in its career -- and too little, which might give customers an excuse to pass on the upgrade.