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Ballmer: Microsoft Unlikely To Top Vista's 'Success'
Published 10/20/2008 by nospam@cmp.com (Paul McDougall) at InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
Apple taunts it, businesses won't touch it, and even Microsoft no longer mentions it by name in ads. Yet Windows Vista, according to Steve Ballmer, has been such a smashing success that Microsoft is unlikely to match it anytime soon.
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