“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.” Via Slashdot. See also The Seattle Times, and InternetNews.Com
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Funny how Ballmer has testified that he had absolutely no knowledge of all this despite Jim Allchin’s once private claim that Ballmer and Intel were in bed with each other.
…like Detroit’s big 3, microsoft is coming to a crashing end
Obviously Microsoft and Intel have a monopoly on the market. This incident proves it. The so called “Wintel Monopoly” has kept us as consumers needing faster and more powerful CPU s for years as the demands for the Micro$oft OS demanded it! All the while they made cash and more cash. The latest IE70 Intel chip is not surprisingly 40% faster than previous ones, whereas Vista and prebeta builds of Windows 7 are exactly 40% slower in performance than XP professional in documented benchmarking tests! ( See infoworld’s Randall C. Kennedy’s expose!) Yup, we are caught in the greed and manipulation of these corporate monster’s lust for power and money schemes!
…the good ship Lollypop is entering rough seas I see.