62 Quotes by Jim Allchin

there's plenty in there that doesn't require new hardware.

Quality was the No. 1 thing that we focused on here, and we feel good enough to lock that date in. It would have been nice to make the back-to-school time frame for pre-loading, but quality came first.

Perhaps after we get closer to shipment we can discuss the dashboard and quality metrics we have. Right now, the team needs to completely focus.

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.

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Developers building embedded devices now have an open, reliable platform from which they can create innovative new solutions and bring them to market faster than ever. These solutions based on Windows NT Embedded 4.0 will enable customers to streamline and automate processes through the use of a wide range of new intelligent devices.

As far as I'm concerned, they were a complete competitor to the operating system.

That's why Sidebar is something important. You will be able to put it to the side and just watch it on the periphery, and the widescreen allows this.

This is something we will be much more hard-core about in the coming years than we have been in the past.