De New York Times vroeg een aantal professoren naar hun mening over Microsofts drijfveer om de lancering van Windows Vista voor de zoveelste keer uit te stellen:

"(...) Several thousand engineers have labored to build and test Windows Vista, a sprawling, complex software construction project with 50 million lines of code, or more than 40 percent larger than Windows XP.(...)

"Windows is now so big and onerous because of the size of its code base, the size of its ecosystem and its insistence on compatibility with the legacy hardware and software, that it just slows everything down," observed David B. Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School. "That's why a company like Apple has such an easier time of innovation." (...)

Windows is too big and too complex," said Michael A. Cusumano, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology. (...)

"Microsoft feels it can't get away with breaking compatibility," said Mendel Rosenblum, a Stanford University computer scientist. "All of their applications must continue to run, and from an architectural point of view that's a very painful thing." (...)

And Apple, which makes operating systems that run only on its own computers, does not have to work with the massive business ecosystem of Microsoft, with its hundreds of PC makers and thousands of third-party software companies.

That ballast is also Microsoft's great strength, and a reason industry partners and computer users stick with Windows, even if its size and strategy slow innovation. (...)"

Zie ook Mini-Microsofts posting ' Vista 2007. Fire the leadership now!' en de honderden en honderden reacties van binnen en buiten de Microsoft-bedrijfsmuren.