"While Microsoft sticks to its story that the dynamic duo will be out early next year, some Wall Streeters have already built wiggle room into their models. Goldman Sachs' Rick Sherlund, for example, said he already assumes a delay into March or even April for Vista.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been fairly open about his displeasure with what happened to Vista. He told CRN two months ago that there will never again be a Vista-type delay in the Windows road map. Many construed that to be a slap at Jim Allchin and other Vista luminaries, a feeling confirmed for some with Microsoft's news that Brian Valentine will move to another project when—cynics might say if—Vista ships.
But one longtime Microsoft observer (whose name must not be mentioned) says the real culprit in the Vista fiasco is none other than former Chief Software Architect Bill Gates."
"The tablet PC remains a disappointment. The stuff that Microsoft got right—Excel, Word, Windows—borrowed heavily from other people's R&D.
The company is trying to reinvent itself, but new top software dog Ray Ozzie has his work cut out for him because the company reeks of bureaucracy. I stand by my statement more than a year ago that today's Microsoft has become the old IBM. This is not a good thing."
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