Jim Allchin Few Quotations

We needed a few more weeks. We decided to optimize it for the entire industry.

There is a few weeks' delay because the partners had asked. This is a major release and it takes a lot of time to do the appropriate qualifications. Some of the manufacturers have their systems built off shore. There are logistics that have to take place here and we are not experts on that.

We needed just a few more weeks, and that put us in a bubble...where some partners would be impacted more than others.

We're just trying to be responsive to their concerns and also be forthright about where we are in terms of being a few weeks late for quality.

We're trying to crank up the security level higher than ever. This came down to a few weeks. We're trying to do the responsible thing here.

Product quality was the first priority on the first day of Vista (development) and we won't compromise on that. We needed just a few more weeks and that put us in what we would call a bubble where some partners would be impacted more than others and we decided to optimize it for the entire industry.