Ballmer: Vista A Work In Progress

Microsoft's CEO admits what thousands of techies have thought of the company for years: they toss stuff into the user community and need a couple of additional releases to make it work.

Vista isn't finished yet. That's not another hack writer's opinion, but an assessment of the operating system from the man who runs the company. Steve Ballmer made an admission about Vista that, in the wake of internal emails at Microsoft criticizing the product, really serves as a footnote to the kerfuffle.

Ballmer's blunt commentary occurred at an event for the company's Most Valuable Professionals in Seattle. In a Blarney Stone, reputed to give the gift of eloquence to the kisser. We're not sure what eloquence has to do with Vista's driver incompatibilities, but to cite the immortal movie Steven Sinofsky, to make Vista look like a bad proposition for PC users right now.

Even Ballmer thinks it has issues.