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"Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed that Vista was his biggest regret during his 33-year career with the company. Speaking to ZDnet, the 57-year old admitted that he had &amp;quot;had a chance to make a lot of mistakes&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;I would say probably the thing I regret most is the, what shall I call it, the loopedy-loo that we did that was sort of Longhorn to Vista,&amp;quot; Ballmer said. He went on to say that Microsoft &amp;#039;birthed&amp;#039; computing in the &amp;#039;80s and &amp;#039;90s, naming it as his proudest moment. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m proud of being I would say a significant part even of the birth of intelligent personal computing, the notion that people use computing technologies, whether that&amp;#039;s phones, PCs,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I would say a billion plus people and now more with phones, even if they&amp;#039;re not all our phones, I&amp;#039;m very proud of what we&amp;#039;ve accomplished there.&amp;quot; Ballmer revealed that he only made his final decision two days before announcing his retirement publicly on Friday (August 23).  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve thought about it for a long time, but the timing became more clear to me over the course of the last few months,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;We worked hard on our strategy process, our org process. And frankly I had no time to think about it during all of that... I would say my thinking has intensified really over the last couple, two, two and a half months, something like that.&amp;quot; The CEO added that Bill Gates &amp;quot;respected&amp;quot; his decision and that he has no immediate plans for the future. &amp;quot;My whole life has been about my family and about Microsoft,&amp;quot; he said.  &amp;quot;And I do relish the idea that I&amp;#039;ll have another chapter, a chapter two, if you will, of my life where I&amp;#039;ll get to sort of experience other sides of life, learn more about myself, all of that, but it&amp;#039;s not like I leave with a specific plan in mind.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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