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Ben Gilbert: Windows Vista killed developer excitement for Microsoft platforms
“I also think this is the death of Microsoft as an interesting platform for developers. Who is writing Vista apps? The Win-Thirty-Two API as a potential target for my new, interesting, innovative application, it's just not a thing anymore.”
Vista Marked the Permanent End of Microsoft's Consumer Leadership
“The death of Microsoft as a relevant consumer technology company. They never recovered from this as a leader.”
Rosenthal: Steve Ballmer called Vista the worst moment of his CEO tenure
“In that conversation that we had with Steve, where he, you know, made the comment about my acquisitions, my mistakes, we just lost money on the bad ones, the genesis of that conversation was about Vista. You know, he was reflecting, he said, that probably was …”