Internal Emails Reveal "Vista Capable" Deception
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Y'know, I think that maybe Microsoft should issue a corporate-wide ban on anything that even resembles las vegas hotel reservations because they're obviously no good at gambling.
It's now coming out in a lawsuit over the whole "Vista Capable" thing. Seems that Microsoft decided to go along with what Intel wanted and changed the specs on Vista compatibility to allow an old chipset to be considered "Vista Compatible" when it clearly was not up to the job of running the new OS.
While they managed to keep Ballmer off the stand, they couldn't stop an email from an MS exec:
"I believe we are going to be misleading customers with the Capable program. OEMs will say a machine is Capable and customers will believe that it will run all the core Vista features. We must avoid confusion. It is wrong for customers."
This tells me two things:
1) There are still some people at Microsoft with at least some honor.
2) They went into Vista knowing full well that there was going to be a boatload of problems with it.
It seems to me that Microsoft couldn't have shot themselves in the foot any worse if they'd used an actual .45
This lends more believability to the prediction that ten years from now almost nobody will be running a Microsoft or Windows related OS for anything other than compatibility with very old games.
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