Windows Vista is Going After Automobiles
July 27, 2007 by Milo Riano
Filed under Microsoft, Windows Vista
Steve Ballmer Wants Us to Pause and Think About This…
Steve Ballmer had these words of wisdom during Microsoft’s analyst day:
The install base of Windows computers this coming 12 months will reach 1 billion. If you stop and just think about that, parse that for a second, by the end of our fiscal year ‘08, there will be more PCs running Windows in the world than there are automobiles, which is at least to me kind of a mind-numbing concept.
There have been just 12 serious vulnerabilities reported with Vista over the first 180 days versus 25 for Windows XP over the same period. This number is also lower than for Apple and other operating systems. We have also seen 21 percent fewer support calls for Vista versus XP over the same period”
A lot of outspoken critics downplay Windows Vista but Steve reveals that Windows Vista will be more than the number of automibiles in the world is something to appreciate on.
More on Steve’s key notes during the event.
Every piece of software going forward will have a services component, but not everything will move to the cloud and be available through a browser.
We are quite far along with the development of software plus services, which are broken down into buckets: personal services, developer services, business services and service enablers.
We are also going to be an advertising company and a devices company. We really do need to have consumer devices to help us continue to drive and develop and grow our business.
We have more opportunity over the next 10 years to deliver more growth and innovation and superior financial returns than ever before.
