Mother/analyst angry with Vista; Ballmer to re-install it for her?
Her daughter might have loved Windows Vista Gadgets, but her mother, a Gartner analyst, had to re-install her desktop to Vista because of all the problems encountered.
It so happened that this mother was one of the interviewer at a Gartner conference with Steve Ballmer as the interviewee.
From PC World:
She went on to explain that she installed Vista for her daughter — and two days later went right back to using the XP operating system. “It’s safe, it works, all the hardware is fine, and everything is great,” she said of XP.
Genovese also argued that her experience with Vista is broadly shared: “What we’re seeing and what we’re hearing from users is a very similar thing. It’s difficult to implement. What should we be seeing that we’re not seeing?”
Steve Ballmer defended Windows Vista as much as he could till the mother aka Gartner analysis ended it with a clincher.
“Good, I’ll let you come in and install it for me,” said Genovese.
Would Steve get his hands dirty to install Windows Vista?
I wonder if Barney Chew, Managing Director for Microsoft Singapore Pte Ltd., would offer to help a Singapore user who switched from Vista to XP to install Vista for that user…
Dear Mr Barney Chew, how about a “Help me install Vista” charity drive?
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