Paul DeGroot Quotations

This will probably be a major downer for the 2006 holiday season, a big time for PC purchases. It's hard to imagine a lot of customers purchasing a new PC but missing the Vista boat by a month.

That's the most important new benefit, ... the additional technical support hours and the elimination of some of the caveats and restrictions on support.

Vista is, I hope, the last time that Microsoft labors so long, misses so many ship dates, and revises so many features midstream.

They have never taken so long to refresh a client OS.

It looks like they're loading SA up with benefits that won't cost Microsoft much, ... Some of these are just not going to be accessed by many customers. That kind of cheap benefit only makes the list looks longer.

It's particularly awkward because its an update to an existing release rather than one incorporated in a future release.

That statement suggests that the whole enchilada is on the table. But that's simply impossible. It would mark a huge and strange departure for Microsoft, far beyond anything required.

In theory, you would have people buying computers with XP Home in 2006, and it would immediately have to be upgraded. There are also a lot of consumers with older hardware who would have to buy a new computer to be secure.