The quote comes from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista. Allchin was responsib

The quote comes from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista. Allchin was responsible for the move from Win95/98/ME to XP (moving to the NT core technology), and then subsequently to Vista. Vista was widely panned. Sinofsky took over to move from Vista to Win7, and now Win8... so I believe both are correct in that they were sequential. Interestingly, Allchin had resounding success with WinXP, not so much with Vista, and retired on the day that Microsoft officially released the Windows Vista operating system to consumers. Deja vu. Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows