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158 Pages of Microsoft's Dirty Laundry

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the isn't-that-a-song dept.

KrispyRasher writes "Even internally, Microsoft couldn't agree on what the base requirements to run Vista were, but that didn't stop it from inaccurately promoting the OS as running on some hardware. 158 pages of Microsoft internal emails reveal scandalous truths about the squabbles that took place in the lead up to Vista's launch."

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  1. The best part, IMHO... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...is the discussion over the miserable driver situation. They eventually conclude that IHVs didn't expect them to ever ship Vista, and that the IHVs also didn't trust Microsoft enough to work hard at getting their drivers working on the Vista betas because they expected subsequent changes to Vista that would break the drivers and negate all the effort.

    These guys honestly seem perplexed that the IHVs don't trust Microsoft. I find that utterly hilarious.

  2. train crash in slow motion by arabagast · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Been reading the pdf the past days, and altough it seems as if there was many sensible voices over at microsoft, they had to much of a momentum forward, making it hard to change directions midcourse. it's really a pain reading those letters knowing what vista ended up at. I'm just hoping to find a reference like "this is ME all over again" somewhere in those letters, would have been so nice to hear that from the horses mouth :)

    and btw: it's 158 pages, not 185.

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