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‘The only way to calm the doubters is by delivering’

ByRichard Waters in San Francisco

Published: October 18 2009 19:23 | Last updated: October 18 2009 19:23

What went wrong with Windows Vista?

We made a set of decisions to improve security: those improvements came at the price of a level of compatibility with [Windows] XP. I’m not sure customers ever appreciated the security improvements as much as they had some challenges with the compatibility issues. Its reputation was established early in that process. We probably shot too far in terms of the innovation perspective. We wrote a spec that might not have been achievable in the time.

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