Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista

bfwebster writes "Microsoft is currently facing a class-action suit over its designation of allegedly under-powered hardware as being 'Vista Capable.' The discovery process of that lawsuit has now compelled Microsoft to produce some internal emails discussing those issues. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has published extracts of some of those emails, along with a link to a a PDF file containing a more extensive email exchange. The emails reflect a lot of frustration among senior Microsoft personnel about Vista's performance problems and hardware incompatibilities. They also appear to indicate that Microsoft lowered the hardware requirements for 'Vista Capable' in order to include certain lower-end Intel chipsets, apparently as a favor to Intel: 'In the end, we lowered the requirement to help Intel make their quarterly earnings so they could continue to sell motherboards with 915 graphics embedded.' Read the whole PDF; it is informative, interesting, and at times (unintentionally) funny."

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[mfh]

Are you serious?? You bought the cheap system and you knew it would run like crap, but you wanted to save $100. GTFO! :P

Re:Vista on minimal HW

[trolltalk.com]

"OS X is definitely not more secure than Vista. Standard Linux consumer distros are not either."

Keep telling yourself that ... after all, your job depends on you continuing to drink the purple flavor-aid.

While you're at it, why not throw another chair on the fire ... its kind of chilly today.

Re:For more information

[bluefoxlucid]

512MB was fine for me banging your girlfriend while multitasking last night.