Internal Emails Released In Vista Capable Debacle

An anonymous reader writes "As previously discussed, Microsoft's attempt to shield itself from further discovery over the Windows Vista Capable debacle has failed and more internal emails have been released. Although Microsoft has successfully kept CEO Steve Ballmer away from the witness stand on grounds the he 'has no unique knowledge of the facts in this case,' emails suggest otherwise. An email was released in which Intel CEO Paul Otellini thanks Ballmer for listening and making changes to the program allowing their 915 chipset to pass the grade: 'I know you did it.'"

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Here's the link

[stjobe]

Link to the email conversation in question: http://media.techflash.com/documents/intelvictory.pdf (pdf)

Re:Link goes to a Google News Search

[Nachos Nakamoto]

This story contains links to the PDF's.

Re:Is anyone really surprised by this????

[MightyMartian]

And, for those of us who remember the whole 'Winmodem' things from the early 90's know that Microsoft has always tried to get us to buy crippled hardware on the basis that if Windows says it supports it, then it must be good. Or at least, have vendors sell something specific to Windows and let the consumer deal with the fallout.

Actually, Winmodems and other controller-less hardware represented something much more sinister than that. They largely tied you to one platform; Windows. It took a significant amount of work and sometimes bending the "rules" to get a lot of this hardware to work under open source operating systems.

Re:Where is Intel in all of this?

[ceoyoyo]

Aqua works great on Intel graphics too. The problem really does seem to be Vista.