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HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade

Posted by kdawson on from the made-for-xp dept.

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."

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  1. Email from Steve by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  2. DRA-MA by Taibhsear · · Score: 4, Funny

    This sounds more like high school than execs and CEOs... Sounds like you guys lost credibility a long time ago.

  3. Popcorn anyone? by Etrias · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is anyone else enjoying this or is it just me? I mean, this is like some kind of geek bitch-slap fight.

  4. Re:SUSE laptops by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. TTY practice by Dolda2000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    [...]MS's anticompetitive^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H incentive[...]

    Are you aware that you can erase an entire word with ^W instead?

  6. Re:Microsoft on the brink by atraintocry · · Score: 4, Funny

    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