"We've seen our sales rate improving and improving," Joe Belfiore, the Microsoft corporate vice president in charge of the design of Windows Phone, said in an interview last week.
He didn't care for the design of Windows 8 himself, though, and said he had no plans to replace his own six-year-old laptop.
Although this Court has now concluded that Microsoft's design of Windows violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act, the Court acknowledged that the Court of Appeals and a number of other courts have articulated a different standard for "technological tying".
For the company's business partners, including computer makers, the possibility of regulation has already helped them win concessions from Microsoft on the design of Windows XP, the latest version of its operating system.
For much of his career, Mr. Belfiore worked on the design of Windows and Internet Explorer, the kind of Microsoft software that is everywhere but not always admired for innovation.
Microsoft saw a need for a major change in both the design of Windows and its strategy for delivering it to customers after the huge success of Apple in the tablet market.
Mr. Ballard, who described himself as a "semiretired" computer systems manager for a real estate firm, said he was intrigued by the eye-catching design of Windows 8 — but not enough to scrimp to buy a new computer this year.
So today, Sinofsky has responded with his own thoughts about the design of Windows 8.
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