Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has always had a firm belief in what his company is doing. Despite some critiques over what Windows 8 is doing, revising its UI to better suit touchscreen hardware, Ballmer expects the OS to be big for the company.
“Windows 8 is going to do great,” said Ballmer. “I’m not paid to have doubts. I don’t have any. It’s a fantastic product . . . People talk about: “How healthy is the PC market ” There’s going to be close to 400 million PCs sold in the next year, which makes it a big market. And whether it’s 405 million or 395 million, it’s a big market, and Windows 8 will propel that volume.”
“A lot of what we spend [on], and [where] we have a big business, [is] selling to enterprise customers. It’s never going to be sexy,” he admitted. “Certainly on the consumer side, our R&D has really paid off in some ways. Kinect is a good example; what we’ve done with Xbox is a good example. Some of the innovations we see – certainly Windows 8, I think, is going to be a very, very good example… At the end of the day, I feel pretty good about our R&D and its return. Some of these things we signed up for, we knew there were long-term battles.”
Source: Seattle Times
