While newly-annointed Microsof CEO Steve Ballmer hoped that big IT would come back to Windows Vista, his speech at Thursday’s Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, FL said that it was okay if firms waited until Windows 7. While Ballmer went on record to say that he’d definitely deploy Vista, “if people want to wait [for Windows 7] they really can,” he said.
This represents a stark departure from Microsoft’s — and especially Ballmer’s — hardline position on Vista’s value proposition for large-scale deployments. Where previous speeches hammered on Vista’s stability, ease of deployment and security, Ballmer’s expression today was muted by comparison.
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