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Ballmer: Vista Success Will Be Hard To Match

No, really. Here's what he said: "We're not going to have products that are much more successful than Vista has been."

A financial success, maybe -- but, really, Steve, give this one up. Just do better with Windows 7, continue to embrace the cloud and let Vista go down as an unfortunate footnote in Microsoft history. Please.

Posted by Lee Pender on October 21, 2008


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