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Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista

Posted by kdawson on from the you-scratch-my-back dept.

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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  1. Enough.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Start to posting about something else than Vista and Microsoft.....

    This pathological obsession with Windows and Microsoft isnt doing anything for the majority of your visitors.

  2. Well, I think Steve Ballmer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Some of my readers ask me what a "Serial Port" is. The answer is: I don't know. Is it some kind of wine you have with breakfast? - This made me lol.

    Penis penis penis lol. (_)(_)lllllllllllllllllllD -- that's my penis lol. not to scale, I couldn't hold it against the monitor long enough lol.

    (Footnote: I would have got first post if it wasn't for this piece of shit proxy XD.)

  3. Re:For more information by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Runs like a champ in..." Unless you're perhaps using it as a verb, the crowd doesn't think 'champ' means what you think it means, sorry.

    ...or he's from England and that makes perfect sense.

  4. Re:SLASHDOT SUX0RZ by 0kComputer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does anyone else find it funny that this same troll posts almost the exact same ascii art goatse guy and link on almost every story, and yet slashdot seems completely powerless to filter it? I dunno, for a technology site, this seems pretty pathetic.

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    Top 10 Reasons To Procrastinate
    10.
  5. Steve's Email by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    did anyone notice that we now have steve ballmer's email

    steve.ballmer@microsoft.com

    i suggest we email him and tell him how much we love our linux boxes that have drivers.

  6. Re:For more information by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...or he's from England and that makes perfect sense.
    Funnily enough, according to dictionary.com "champ" as an abbreviation of "champion" originated in American English.
  7. Re:For more information by orbitor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey Pal,

    When you lift a joke for use as a tag line, it is proper to give the author credit. If you do not know the identity of the author, please refrain from using it and try to come up with something clever all on your own.

  8. so how does this get leaked? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Goes to show how failed Microsoft's hiring system is when they have internal rats who leaked the emails.

  9. Re:For more information by Time+Ed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "If I bought whole computers instead of building them from spare parts I'd buy a mac."

    You can build a mac from spare parts. See here:
    http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
    or here:
    http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showforum=137
    or here:
    http://forum.osx86scene.com/

    Of if you decide to buy a cheap pc for your project, here's the instuctions:
    http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=74964