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A comment on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by localhost on Friday August 23, 2013 @11:18AM (#6264105)
Windows 8 shipped 3 years after Windows 7. That's a very typical upgrade cycle.
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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by tuananh on Friday August 23, 2013 @11:32AM (#6264204)
People get used to "Windows XP's style" upgrade cycle, I guess.
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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by jaredmcateer on Friday August 23, 2013 @12:26PM (#6264560)
The problem was that it was a complete pivot on an operating system people finally saw as the true successor to Windows XP. It's what Vista should have been, a nice polished and professional OS that generally was out of your face, yet extremely useful. Then there was windows 8, not horrible, there were some under the hood improvements but the horrible hybrid metro/desktop interaction alienated the desktop market and no clear incentive to upgrade.
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