Jim Allchin
Jim Allchin
James "Jim" Edward Allchinis an American blues rock guitarist/singer, philanthropist, and a former Microsoft executive...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
everybody fact industry ready
The fact is that we wanted everybody in the industry to be ready for this.
decided entire few needed optimize
We needed a few more weeks. We decided to optimize it for the entire industry.
consoles experience gaming
The gaming experience on Windows Vista is going to go beyond any of the gaming consoles and anything that's been done before.
bubble call compromise decided entire few needed optimize others partners priority product quality weeks
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.
competitor complete far operating
As far as I'm concerned, they were a complete competitor to the operating system.
diving factor order people release safety secure security system
Security is a big thing. Safety and security has been a diving factor in this release all along. We know what we need to do to in order to make this system one that people are going to be able to feel safe and secure when they get it.
dream fewer highway open roadblocks speed
If you want to make a difference, and you see something that can be improved, then don't talk--improve it. My dream is for a much more agile, quality-driven engineering organization with fewer roadblocks and more open highway to speed on. ... Now, let's ship, ship, ship!
features planned quarter
This CTP that we are doing in this quarter will have all the features that we had planned to put in the product.
features literally thousands
There are literally thousands of features in this product.
technology icons way
I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.
intellectual imagine source
Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.
linux products
We can build a better product than Linux,
microsoft today macs
I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.
broad delay gets good team trouble
We still feel very good we can get it to broad availability this year. If the team gets in trouble about quality, I will delay this product.