Microsoft security guru Michael Howard put the sign (the title) on his door on commemorating the completion of Windows Vista. Last week, Microsoft’s shares closed above $29 for the first time since November 2004. The market looks ready to embrace the day for Vista - Jan 30, 2007.
Vista has improved reliability and security, protected mode IE, Aero glass UI and media centricity together with gratuitous UI changes, degraded performance on older machines, new compatibility issues and high cost of migration. Despite mixed views from market watchers, Microsoft remains bullish about its latest operating system.
“Our market is so much larger now than five years ago when we introduced Windows XP. We expect Vista to be the fastest-adopted OS in our history,” said Mike Sievert, Corporate Vice-president for Windows Client Marketing.
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