Steve Ballmer claims he wasn’t involved in the “operational decisions” involving Microsoft’s controversial Vista Capable scheme.
The software giant is currently facing a class action in the US over claims that the Vista Capable sticker scheme misled people into buying machines that were only able to run the stripped-down version of the OS, Vista Home Basic.
Plaintiffs in the case want Ballmer to give evidence, but in a document filed to the court, Ballmer denies all knowledge of the intricacies of the scheme.
“I was not involved in any of the operational decisions about the Windows Vista Capable program,” Ballmer claims in the document acquired by the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
“I was not involved in establishing the requirements computers must satisfy to qualify for the Windows Vista Capable program.
“To the best of my recollection, I do not have any unique knowledge of, nor did I have any unique involvement in, any decisions regarding the Windows Vista Capable programme.” See the full article on PCPro.Co.Uk
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Doesn’t anyone take responsibility any more? Noone is going to tell me that he has “no clue” as to what goes on there. They shouldn’t have lowered H/W standards so Intel could push their crappy chipset.
IMO, MSFT deserves to get shafted for doing the same to the people that keep them in business, their customers.
My Vista was going great my motherboard MSI stated Vista Ready and all that but the onboard sound drivers for Vista kept corrupting. So after removing and doing everything under the sun I returned back to XP and it works better then better then before even the webcam works better.
There is loads of great stuff with Vista but it is a white elephant the Windows ME of the this century.
…i agree chuck.
[...] Steve Ballmer admits he is clueless: Plaintiffs in the case want Ballmer to give evidence, but in a document filed to the court, Ballmer denies all knowledge of the intricacies of the scheme. [...]
…he’d make a great Sgt. Schultz. I see nothing, hear nothing, know nothing!
Is inexcusable that the CEO of Microsoft doesn’t even know what goes on in his own business, but then what is he doing about it, now that he knows his business was deceiving the public with false advertising claims?
By charging everyone to downgrade back to their working operating system platform!
Windows 7 is just Vista relabeled. It still has DRM, DMI (Motherboard), TPM. IRM. HDCP and lots of activation, validation and Microsoft’s way of rewarding you with their WGA scheme!
I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team. –
Steve Ballmer