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Mikep
Slashdot has a thread going concerning the frustration among senior
Microsoft personnel about Vista's performance problems and hardware
incompatibilities. It mentions that Microsoft lowered the hardware
requirements for 'Vista Capable' in order to include certain lower-end Intel
chipsets, apparently as a favor to Intel: 'In the end, we lowered the
requirement to help Intel make their quarterly earnings so they could
continue to sell motherboards with 915 graphics embedded.
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/02/28/1746211.shtml
It's also being covered by C/Net:
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9882376-37.html?tag=newsmap
Forbes -- Microsoft caves in to Intel:
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/02/28/microsoft-vista-intel-tech-ebiz-cx_wt_0228vista.html
and a lot other publications.
I got stung buying a 'Vista Capable' system that was as bad as desctribed
and I'm still upset.
But I wasn't the only one:
In another e-mail message, Microsoft Windows product manager Mike Nash
complained he had fallen victim to the problem: "I personally got burned by
the Intel 915 chipset issue on a laptop that I personally" bought "with my
own $$$." Nash said he purchased a Sony laptop with the Vista logo and was
disappointed. "I now have a $2,100 e-mail machine," he complained.
Microsoft personnel about Vista's performance problems and hardware
incompatibilities. It mentions that Microsoft lowered the hardware
requirements for 'Vista Capable' in order to include certain lower-end Intel
chipsets, apparently as a favor to Intel: 'In the end, we lowered the
requirement to help Intel make their quarterly earnings so they could
continue to sell motherboards with 915 graphics embedded.
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/02/28/1746211.shtml
It's also being covered by C/Net:
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9882376-37.html?tag=newsmap
Forbes -- Microsoft caves in to Intel:
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/02/28/microsoft-vista-intel-tech-ebiz-cx_wt_0228vista.html
and a lot other publications.
I got stung buying a 'Vista Capable' system that was as bad as desctribed
and I'm still upset.
But I wasn't the only one:
In another e-mail message, Microsoft Windows product manager Mike Nash
complained he had fallen victim to the problem: "I personally got burned by
the Intel 915 chipset issue on a laptop that I personally" bought "with my
own $$$." Nash said he purchased a Sony laptop with the Vista logo and was
disappointed. "I now have a $2,100 e-mail machine," he complained.