Interview: Microsoft's Allchin discusses Vista security
CRN.com | at | by Mike
CRN Industry Editor Barbara Darrow and Senior Writer Paula Rooney met with Microsoft's Jim Allchin, co-president, Platform Products & Services Division, in Boston this week to discuss Vista beta 2, its business and consumer features and plans for release.
CRN: So Vista beta 2 is a series of two CTPs?
Allchin: I think you know we changed the process of how we're building product, the process internally and we also changed the way we're going to get feedback on it. We produced one CTP in October, December, and we'll produce one this quarter and one next quarter. We're targeting each CTP at a particular audience. The one in December, which we also talked about at CES, and we spent time with retailers and OEMs. And one coming up this quarter will be targeted toward our corporate accounts.