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If you want to make a difference, and you see something that can be improved, then don't talk--improve it. My dream is for a much more agile, quality-driven engineering organization with fewer roadblocks and more open highway to speed on. ... Now, let's ship, ship, ship

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Quality was the No. 1 thing that we focused on here, and we feel good enough to lock that date in. It would have been nice to make the back-to-school time frame for pre-loading, but quality came first.

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There is a few weeks' delay because the partners had asked. This is a major release and it takes a lot of time to do the appropriate qualifications. Some of the manufacturers have their systems built off shore. There are logistics that have to take place here and we are not experts on that.

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To be clear, the reason why we're doing this is because they asked us to do this. To be clear, some would like for us to continue, and some wouldn't. So what we're trying to do is think about the whole industry, and we don't see any plan in change in terms of PC forecast.

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Developers building embedded devices now have an open, reliable platform from which they can create innovative new solutions and bring them to market faster than ever. These solutions based on Windows NT Embedded 4.0 will enable customers to streamline and automate processes through the use of a wide range of new intelligent devices.

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We are on track to complete Vista this year. Given that customers have wanted us to be very precise and any mistakes made might impact the business, we have decided to come out with a high assurance date everyone can count on.

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We're going to blow out the holiday season.

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I am fine now, but I made a decision then to retire at the end of 2006.

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Product quality was the first priority on the first day of Vista (development) and we won't compromise on that. We needed just a few more weeks and that put us in what we would call a bubble where some partners would be impacted more than others and we decided to optimize it for the entire industry.

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That's why Sidebar is something important. You will be able to put it to the side and just watch it on the periphery, and the widescreen allows this.

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Security is a big thing. Safety and security has been a diving factor in this release all along. We know what we need to do to in order to make this system one that people are going to be able to feel safe and secure when they get it.

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The industry was asking for more certainty. We made a decision to move the date so everybody could be aligned.

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Given that the customers have wanted us to be very precise and any mistakes in that might impact their business, we decided to come out with a very high assurance date for them that they can count on.

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That held true last week when the 15-year Microsoft veteran revealed he would retire at the end of next year. If you want to make a difference, and you see something that can be improved, then don't talk--improve it, ... My dream is for a much more agile, quality-driven engineering organization with fewer roadblocks and more open highway to speed on. ... Now, let's ship, ship, ship

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We needed a few more weeks. We decided to optimize it for the entire industry.

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Our industry partners, as you probably know, during the December selling season, need quite a bit of time, and an extremely high level of confidence and certainty about that period of time. Now, we've been in discussions with them, and in order for all the industry to be ready, instead of just part of the industry, we've decided to prioritize around the customer and partner satisfaction for the broad availability, to be in January of 2007. This will ensure great out-of-the-box experience for Windows Vista customers, and ensure that all of our partners are prepared at the same time.

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We still feel very good we can get it to broad availability this year. If the team gets in trouble about quality, I will delay this product.

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We're just trying to be responsive to their concerns and also be forthright about where we are in terms of being a few weeks late for quality.

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I don't understand how IE 4.0 is going to win. My conclusion is we must leverage Windows more. We should first think of an integrated solution.

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This is a blockbuster release. It takes a lot of time to do the appropriate qualifications, and also some of the manufacturers have their systems built off-shore. Those come by things like boats . So there's logistics that has to take place here.

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Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform.

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I would hope that we get credit for listening to partners and ensuring that we're thinking about their businesses, not just ours or some portion of their businesses.

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The industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

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Its not new work that were adding. It's simply ... work in continuing to make this the most safe and secure system thats ever been.

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Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

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