Damning admissions from MS execs

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From an Engadget article:

 

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article wrote:

...although Intel's 915 chipset was initially rejected as incompatible with Vista, MS execs flatly admit that

 

"In the end, we lowered the requirements to help Intel make their quarterly earnings so they could continue to sell motherboards with the 915 graphics embedded" and

 

"We are caving to Intel. We worked the last 18 months to drive the UI experience and we are giving this up."

 

On top of that, it seems that the company was getting direct feedback from retailers that the stickers were confusing, with Wal-Mart appealing directly to HP to pull Vista Capable stickers from low end machines, and an MS exec saying that

 

"I was in Best Buy listening to people and can tell you this did not come clear to customers. We set ourselves up."

 

Although, I don't know if not mucking w/ the "capable" label would've helped Vista's fortune any.

 

 

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