∞ Microsoft exec calls iPhone 4 Apple's Vista

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Now even Microsoft is poking Apple with sticks over its botched management of reception issues that plague the iPhone 4 almost three weeks after its launch. Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s chief operating officer, compared the iPhone 4 to Microsoft’s failed Vista operating system. The comments came during a keynote speech at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C.

Earlier in his talk, Turner poked fun at the reception problems that have dogged Apple’s iPhone 4 since its June 24 launch. “One of the things I want to make sure you know today is that you’re going to be able to use a Windows Phone 7 and not have to worry about how you’re holding it to make a phone call,” Turner said, referring to the Microsoft mobile operating system set to debut on smartphones this fall.

Microsoft exec mocks iPhone 4, dubs it Apple’s Vista [Computerworld]


  • Cris

    Whatever. I don’t see lines of people returning their iPhones, and almost everybody I know who had Vista, reverted back to XP, particularly when it was introduced.

    • Jim Dalrymple

      Yeah, that’s a pretty low blow.

      • Daniel Swanson

        Hey Jim, this is so insane, it doesn’t even qualify as a blow. It simply shows how truly nutty MS management is, don’t you think?

  • http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com Shawn King

    To Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s chief operating officer, “Shut up and ship something…”

  • Paul Forrester

    This really seems like its a tempest in a teapot. I’ve carried every model of iPhone apple has produced. I’m not seeing any reception differences between this phone and the previous phones I’ve carried. AND, this phone is so much snappier than my old iphone. I like the phone so much I just convinced my 75 year old mother to buy one and she loved the phone too! Apple’s Vista? I think not!

    • Jason

      I hope you gave her a discount because I don’t know what a 75 year old would need with an iPhone. I can’t imagine my 64 year old mom wanting or needing an iPhone, iPad, or any technology that can be more complicated than AOL. ;)

      • Daniel Swanson

        You may not mean much harm here, and the “elderly” people in your world may indeed be “cashing in their chips” early as too many are wont to do, but I personally rather resent your stereotyping here on the basis of age.

        I’m only a few years behind your mom, and I’m teaching myself Objective-C with the intent of becoming in the near future a productive iOS developer.

  • http://tewha.net Steven Fisher

    Good to know that after Vista, Microsoft failed to learn what exactly a Vista-event looks like.

    Good luck to them in future product releases. Seems they’ll need it.

  • http://www.saumilzx.com saumilzx

    Comparing an antenna issue to a platform crisis is crazy. I’d rather put a bumper than reboot Windows with a floppy or some other crazy set of installation steps.

    Moreover, we do not even know how many are iPhone 4 users are affected and my view is that the design might well be a masterstroke from Apple. my views are here: http://bit.ly/iPhone4_Antenna_Roundup

    It’s a lot of fun sitting in Mumbai (no iPhone 4 here yet), and wondering if anyone ever made a phone call.

  • http://www.macgasm.net Joshua Schnell

    Well, if it’s anything like the Kin, Microsoft is going to have no problem at all selling their phones. *eyeroll*

  • Ian Davies

    “Apple’s Vista”? Yeah, he wishes. As Engadget pointed out, Apple has sold 2 million iPhone 4. How many people are actually having real-world problems with theirs? Not enough to warrant the recall that the pant-wetters in the media are baying for.

    How anyone at MS has the brass neck to try and take the piss out of ANYONE after the Kin joke is a mystery of the universe.

  • IcyFog

    How would Turner know? Has he used an iPhone 4. I have, and I have not encountered any problems.

  • http://www.kevinraffay.com Kevin Raffay

    ROFL. And everything to do with Windows Mobile going back to the pathetic Nino was Microsoft’s Vista.

  • Hamranhansenhansen

    iPhone 4 has 2 high-profile software bugs, both of which are going to be fixed with the first software update within weeks of launch. If there was ever a Windows version that good, Apple would have gone out of business years ago.

    Also, Microsoft has never sold a phone that is as good as iPhone 4. The return rate on Windows Mobile phones is 25%, well above the industry average of 5%. Apple’s return rate is well below the industry average.

    > you’re going to be able to use a Windows Phone 7 and not
    > have to worry about how you’re holding it to make a phone call

    In other words, Microsoft’s imaginary phone can beat up Apple’s real phone. Tough stuff.

  • http://www.yourmaclifeshow.com Shawn King

    “iPhone 4 has 2 high-profile software bugs, both of which are going to be fixed with the first software update within weeks of launch”

    What two “bugs” are tHose?

  • Jason

    Kevin Turner should be fired for this comment. A COO saying this about HIS OWN company doesn’t give a good public impression of Microsoft. Relating a failure of another company to his own company is just plain stupid.

  • http://www.safedev.com.com sunnylove6

    I think iPhone 4 is not as good as expecting!
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