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HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade
More documents are coming out in court proceedings over the Vista Capable debacle. Internetnews.com has good coverage of HP's fury over Microsoft lowering the requirements for a Vista Capable sticker, at Intel's request. "Intel officials may have been pleased that Microsoft lowered standards for obtaining the company's Windows Vista Capable logo program sticker, but the same can't be said about HP's execs. 'I can't be more clear than to say you not only let us down by reneging on your commitment to stand behind the [device driver model] requirement, you have demonstrated a complete lack of commitment to HP as a strategic partner and cost us a lot of money in the process,' said one e-mail from Richard Walker, the senior vice president of HP's consumer business unit, to [Microsoft executives]." PCPro.co.uk follows the trail of accusatory emails inside Microsoft from there: "HP's email prompted then Microsoft co-President, Jim Allchin, to send a furious email of his own to company CEO Steve Ballmer. Allchin's email suggests the decision to lower the requirements was made in his absence by Ballmer, following 'a call between you and Paul [Otellini, Intel CEO].' 'I am beyond being upset here,' Allchin wrote to Ballmer. 'What a mess. Now we have an upset partner, Microsoft destroyed credibility [sic], as well as my own credibility shot.' Ballmer, in turn, blamed another Microsoft executive, Will Poole, in a rather erratically typed reply to Allchin."
Furries were involved. I knew it!
So, let me see if I understand this...
HP is beyond angry that MS listened to other manufacturers' concerns, and made a change that prevented HP from being able to basically corner the early-adoption market, or at least a huge chunk of it.
The saying "sucks to be them" comes to mind. Especially since I'm pretty sure that HP needs MS more than MS needs HP. What choice does HP have besides going with MS - switching to exclusively Linux pre-loads? Write their own OS? Good luck.
While I can understand HP's position to a point, I can't escape thinking that maybe, just maybe, they should have been improving their product to the maximum extent possible anyway, regardless of what MS did or didn't say or promise. Unless there is a hard written contractural committment, HP is basically SOL.
I guess I just can't get too fired up watching a spat between companies using corporate politics and marketing departments to dictate engineering.
Anything. Anything at all; emanating out of the orator Ballmer, is total rhetoric and has absolutely no basis in fact, fantasy or reality. He is a total illusion to the stakeholders of Micro$oft, and all that it stands for. He has in a phrase; gone completely over the other end.
Anything you hear from him is complete fiction. Not to put any credence to.
Having personally tried this myself in several areas, I concur with the likes of many test sites that have stated Vista is a joke. It is solely designed for NEW HARDWARE ONLY, and nothing else. That new hardware better damn well be very fast, with lots of memory, cache, and multiprocessor. The performance index of 1.0 sucks rocks. Even XP loaded with junk in the browser and temp cache runs faster than this beast.
Now show me Windows 7. Lets see what that is supposed to be.
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My thoughts exactly. I had to read it twice before I realized that it was about Slashdot and not the Bush Administration!
You actually believe in the Spaghetti monster and his noodly appendage?
Consider yourself chided, sir.
"But this one goes to 11!"
believing in evolution
Evolution is not a belief, it is a scientific fact which can be tested. I'm sorry, but I get edgy when people start using belief to refer to things which are falsifiable.
All intents and purposes. Not intensive purposes.