You’re leaving your full time role at Microsoft in July 2008. What involvement are you going to have in the next operating system?
First of all, there’s tons of people who help make those decisions, so I wouldn’t overstate my role in the past. But I’ll have full involvement, the [same] involvement I’ve ever had in the key decisions for those products.

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A troubled birth
Windows Vista has had something of a troubled birth. Hyped features were pulled, and the project as a whole took far longer to complete than expected, partly due to standing still while MS dropped everything to work on Windows XP Service Pack 2, but in part also due to a decision to “reset” and scrap much of the new development. This has led some commentators to dub the project a “train wreck.”

But is it?

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