Microsoft exec: Windows Vista is "less good"
PC World | at | by Mike
With Windows 7's launch looming , a company executive this week denigrated its predecessor, calling Vista a "less good product." The comment won't surprise many analysts and users, who have condemned the 2007 operating system as bloated, slow and balky, but it's the furthest any high-level Microsoft executive has gone in criticizing Vista.
"What people underestimate is the importance of good or bad products," said Charles Songhurst, Microsoft's general manager of corporate strategy, at a investor's conference on Tuesday. "And sometimes your products are good, sometimes the products are bad.