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."

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Re:My complaint about Slashdot

[ImOnlySleeping]

If you've got a gripe, I suggest keeping it brief, because really, nobody read all that. Also post it under your user name. From the bits I read, my answer would be that there is no mind control as such. It just happens that people that people with similar view points are attracted to the existing group of people that share those views.

Re:My complaint about Slashdot

[sirdisc]

This is a joke and nonsensical.

Re:Somebody help me understand this . . .

[hagardtroll]

They placed it into the orthogontric manufacturing process. Three sheets to the wind on the Tranya supplies. Once they garantulate wildly, the machines are configured to support their minimal power supplied outcomes. We never cease to see from Intel, the various supply side ergonomics we seek from time to time. Never underestimate the power of free radical electrons to cogitate your display device on even intervals. When in doubt, there is always the forceful inclusion of semiconducted forest derivatives. Be vigilant, and some day you will have the freedom to encode entertainment streams through your house.

Progress

[Joebert]

See Dick.
See Dick run.
See Dick run Linux.

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Re:My complaint about Slashdot

[powerlord]

For example, because the vast majority of Slashdotters are freethinkers (atheists, agnostics, irreligious etc.), as indeed am I, it does tend to drive away or silence those who aren't.

I'm not sure I'd agree with the "Freethinker" moniker. Being open to all possibilities is practically required when you're dealing with computers or troubleshooting any complex system (which I believe the majority of Slashdot members do/did regularly). This doesn't necessarily imply "Aetheist, Agnostic, Irreligious, etc.", anymore than a science degree implies it.

Re:My complaint about Slashdot

[MikeBabcock]

My freethinking is what empowers me to believe in God. Being a techy who cares about geeky science stuff should require me not to, but that would be submitting to the status quo "just because".

I'm free to think for myself, and I do so, religiously. I slam science geeks for not believing in God just because their peers don't when they haven't put any good thought into it themselves from the same angle I'd slam someone for not believing in evolution when they haven't put any good thought into it either.

Re:My complaint about Slashdot

[Mister Whirly]

Do you ever have any of the science geeks you slam turn it around and accuse you of only believing in God because your parents/peers do and you haven't put any good thought into it yourself? If so what is your reaction? If not, how would you react? That train of logic goes both ways on the tracks...


(I know you will probably reply that you HAVE put a good deal of thought in it yourself. Then I would ask you - how do you know they haven't done the same as well?)