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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."
To sBallmer:
Steve, Why is it taking forever to send emails?
From sBallmer:
To bGates:
Bill, 640 minutes for roundtrip for email should be enough for everyone.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
"I going to f---ing kill the 915 chipset!"
In case of performance issues, look! Over there!
Isn't that Britney checking into rehab?
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
Dismay, when contacted, said she was not even in the country when the photo in question was taken. Vista could not be reached for comment, but her publisher insisted that all struggling new talent has photos in the closet that invariably surface when they become popular. When asked, the man-on-the-street responded with a shrug and said "Good thing neither of them has dentures - someone could have lost a labia!"
Maybe it's a typo -- "runs like a chimp" brings to mind knuckle dragging with occasional inexplicable detours into incoherent bursts of rage and feces flinging.
Or maybe he knew exacly what it meant. Champ - The field or ground of a field. It ran itself into the ground.
If i had one dollar for every brain you dont have, i would have $1.
Reminds of the old quote I used to read around the web. The requirements called for Windows2000 or better, so I upgraded to Linux.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
Please hire me to advise you on your products before releasing.
If you give me political amnesty from others within the company, I an give you an honest view of the quality of a product.
Based on these email, it seem that upper management is unaware that some of their employees have had their jobs threatened from people in middle management for getting to 'loud'. Nothing direct, but a lot of implied threats.
I need 120K a year, 100,000 shares, and to work remotely most of the time. I will need to be extracted from the daily 'in the office' routine in order to maintain objectivity.
I work in the strictest confidence, and I assure you know email will be leaked from my office.
Regards,
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Hardly the stuff of a great leader like Ballmer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
No sig today...
I found it amusing that Ballmer writes like a barely-literate teenage girl would before all that sms-speak came about. I wonder if the only books he reads have pictures in them.
"Playing graphics games costs CPU and GPU processing power"
Official Microsoft advice: please refrain from playing graphics games on Vista. You may still, however, play text adventures. Honk if you love Zork.
Windows Vista: Designed For Infocom.
whatre you talking about i looked and i coud see nothing at all wrong with his english usage looked absolutely fine to me leave him alone hes a fine man
steve
When you hurl a chair at somebody's head, an exclamation point just seems kind of redundant.
Meanwhile I run Linux on my wristwatch with 8kb ram, 8x2 text display and two buttons (one for displaying an ascii-art penguin logo and the other for posting this post I am posting at the moment) and I can even run compiz on it (and it runs pretty damn OK), do most of my development (I research operating systems, artificial intelligence and new ways of man-machine comm), heck, I even play minesweeper on it, and- ha! It runs more smoothly than Vista's minesweeper on a Core 2 Quad with 32 GB of ram and SEVEN monitors (but I guess monitor count doesn't add or subtract too much to/from overall system performance, but I might be wrong).
Cleary. There. Are. Some. Exceptions. To. This. Rule.
"I only speak the truth"
Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
Marketing gone wild...
I just had visions of marketing showing its tits, damn you!
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
I've been using Vista since it came out and have helped to install it on several machines in our office.
You fiend! How much are you extorting them for removal?
Come to think of it that would be a nice racket...
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Not with that apostrophe it doesn't. It makes no sense at all!
No, that would be "flies like a chair". Which is wrong. Flies like a banana. Chimps like a chair.
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I believe this guy would disagree.
The MS Vista debacle is fantastic. These Vista (in)capable machines run Linux just fine.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
You had me until then. Well played, sir!
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
WINDOWS VISTA: The Great Wow Experience
Copyright (c) 2006, 2007, 2008 Microsoft, Inc. All rights reserved.
WINDOWS is a registered trademark of Microsoft, Inc.
Revision 6093 / Serial number FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8
West of Desktop
You are standing in an open field west of a desktop, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
>open mailbox
Opening the small mailbox reveals a leaflet.
>read leaflet
(Taken)
"WELCOME TO VISTA!
VISTA is an operating system of adventure, danger, and low cunning. In it you will explore some of the most amazing window decorations ever seen by mortals. No computer should be without one!"
>photoshop.exe
I don't know the word "photoshop".
>help
I don't know the word "help".
>reboot
I don't know the word "reboot".
>dir
I don't know the word "dir".
>C:\ I don't know the word "c:\".
>
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
Whats wrong with books with pictures in them???
-Steve Ballmer