Michael Cherry Quotes (15 Quotes)

You end up with a number that's as accurate as an EPA mileage rating 'Your mileage may vary,'

What I have to contrast it with is Apple. They only have one version of OS X.

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

Microsoft hasn't been the greatest on delivery times to begin with. I don't know if this one makes things any worse.

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.

I don't know if panic is the right word, but computer users shouldn't take this lightly. You need to be protecting your system from all these kinds of outbreaks.

It is unconscionable that Microsoft has not set the hardware requirements, and pointing to the logo doesn't help because you have to be an electrical engineer to understand that.

If people are working together on a project and one person starts the document using Word, then other people need to be able to open it, edit it and send it back. When they send it back, the first person has to be able to open it back up.

Even Microsoft is saying that these previews might not be as stable as a beta build. Is it worth giving up some stability to look at these features

This whole lifecycle plan of theirs doesn't obligate them to do anything. Look at Windows XP SP2. Microsoft made two major changes to RPC and DCOM in SP2 for security reasons, but said they were 'architectural changes.' They weren't required, they said, to make those changes available in Windows 2000, which at that time was still in mainstream support.

While they were building a big company, lo and behold, it became a big company, ... There's a great deal of frustration about how long it takes to make decisions and the amount of time people spend in meetings.

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.

Since Vista slipped and missed the holiday season in 2006 I have been wondering Does it really matter if Vista is available for consumers on Super Bowl or Easter Sunday It would seem to me that consumer sales month-to-month are probably pretty consistent until there is a back to school spike (late summer, early fall), and then a holiday spike (post-Thanksgiving).

In order to build the chip to make it the best performing chip, Intel decided to change some aspects of it so it wasn't able to continue the x86 processing instructions.

Any full solution to this org sic my data problem has to be able to interact with all of the places where I leave my data,