22 Quotes by Michael Cherry

At the moment, the best thing will be to wait until you go into a store and see Vista actually running on it. But that's a year away, isn't it?

You need to be able to show people, 'Ah, but you really need this,' ... To do that, you need these third parties to have gotten excited about it and to have gone and built their applications.

Although Microsoft has stated that customers want predictable releases, they have made no effort to make the availability of service packs predictable. Service packs, which are typically loaded with features are totally random events that IT cannot plan for. Because they contain hot fixes and security updates, customers have to roll them out. So I don't anticipate a quick update to Vista.

It's just another release on the road to getting to a fully featured, complete version.

It's just a morale thing. The other names have been kicking around so long. It's much more about trying to keep focused and keep some excitement around where they are going.

It just uses so much of the operating system so well. They didn't try to overbuild.

It's better to get that stake in the ground and start working on it and stabilizing it.

It's very important for Microsoft to win the hearts and minds of the developers.

They could have gambled a lot longer and said, 'Let's just be quiet about it,' but they stood up to the mark.