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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."
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Give MS a break! This sort of thing happens when the general public just can't wait to have the "newest" technology, operating system, what have you.... so thereby causing companies like Microsoft, and others, to "push" out thier newest prodcts in an attempt to try and please the general public.... now, now.... I have to say shame on Microsoft for marketing thier newest OS to computer producers as "Vista ready", or "Windows Visa capable". On the other hand, let this be a lesson to the general public that waiting for something can be a "good" thing and, not nessessarily nice to have the newest of anything,(Vista or whatever the case), as quickly as it can be had, which can cause many companies to be sloppy in thier final products rushed to the retail world. Let's all try waiting fo a change an encourage quality..... not quantity!
Here's a very informative discussion/blog that I've been following on the lawsuit. Much interesting information here:
yhttp://yro.topix.com/tech/judge-rules-vista-capable-lawsuit-can-proceedarticle.pl?s/
I refuse to believe this. I will *not* read these documents. They are probably forged by these European users anyway. Everybody knows that Microsoft goes all the way to support it's users and Bill Gates is a nice man who supports a lot of charities. How can you even suggest that they would join the forces of evil to steal our money. It's true my Vista is a bit slower on the HP with 512Mb memory, but I bought it that way and it is supposed to be like that. If not then it is certainly not MS fault but HP. And if the SP1 is dropping a lot of functionality in a range of programs then that is only to protect us users from evil software that profits from the great source code MS produces. I hate you all for making fun of MS[tm].
Score 0: Disagree with our religion.
Shh.
I had an iBook before I joined Microsoft. It burned motherboard every 9 months. To maintain security support of the OS, I had to buy a new version of OS X every other release (My system came with OS X 10.1). Not only is MS cheaper to buy, it is far cheaper to maintain for many years. That said, Apple does make elegant consumer products.
Okay. But only if you run the same experiment from the other side of the coin. Get a linux 2.2-based system (if we take the release of v2.4.0 in 2001 as the point at which 2.2.x was most stable and use that for our comparison) and then take a recent 2.6.x based system.
Now throw in all the rest of the junk that goes with the 2.6 system (KDE, search tools, firefox, etc), and leave 2.2 with it's older interface.
The performance difference between the two is going to be *slower* on equivalent hardware on the 2.6.x system. Why? more stuff, doing more. There might be advantages in the disk subsystem (assuming you can even *find* drivers for 2.2.x for your current system) but those are going to be offset by KDE doing more, and there being more memory usage, etc. But that said, there are advantages in 2.6 as well. newer drivers, better queuing algorithms, better networking, better scheduling, which has allowed us to do more with more (which is still less, in total).
The only reason we didn't see it is because we were there, testing things out at a regular basis, every step of the way.
Sure, the release of a new OS (Vista) means we've taken a step backwards. Guess what, I took that same step backwards when going from win98 to win2000 (I needed to buy more ram to play diablo2.) I took the same step backwards when going from win2000 to XP. The only time i took a step forwards was when I upgraded hardware. That's been the case, every single time.
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Oh please...Spare us your sob story....Its quite clear you can upgrade the ram at the time of the purchase for $100 bucks... The only thing that is cheap here, is you!
It's left blank because I have nothing to say to you punks!