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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."
Jim,
I most certainly did not... *picks up chair*
It was *throws chair* Will Poole who made the decision. Blame him.
Sorry I have to run. My anger management class starts in 5 minutes.
Steve
This sounds more like high school than execs and CEOs... Sounds like you guys lost credibility a long time ago.
Wait...Microsoft had credibility with system-requirements to destroy?!?
And thrown a chair at Allchin.
At least he's emailing now.
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
Is anyone else enjoying this or is it just me? I mean, this is like some kind of geek bitch-slap fight.
No, that's "Microsoft Works".
How did you fail THIS badly?
-=This sig has nothing to do with my comment. Move along now=-
They've clearly been fooled (at least) once now, will they let themselves be fooled twice?
There's an old saying in Redmond - I know it's in Palo Alto, probably in Redmond - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - I can't get fooled again.
How did you fail THIS badly?
I'm guessing lots of practice
psmylie's dictionary: Godzillion (noun) Any number large enough to destroy Tokyo
I've noticed there are an awful lot of Steves in the industry. Ballmer, Wozniak and Jobs, plus a handful of others that I probably don't know about. I think Jobs and Wozniak (and others) should hold a vote to make Ballmer change his first name to something else. I'm sure he embarrasses them.
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
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Are you aware that you can erase an entire word with ^W instead?
Year after year, I maintain the feeling that Windows is teetering on the brink.
Reading a lot of Slashdot will do that to you :D