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Internal emails prove Microsoft lowered Vista standards for Intel [Lawsuits]
Gawker: valleywag —
"The real issue is Intel does not have parts to support the April timeframe." Remember the class-action lawsuit over Vista Capable PCs that lack the graphics power to run Vista's Aero interface? TechFlash has published the 29-page court document with Microsoft's internal emails. Intel CEO Paul Otellini personally intervened to convince Microsoft to lower the standards so that an entire generation of underpowered, non-upgradable PCs would be deemed Vista Capable. I know — I bought one. Even Microsoft exec Jim Allchin thought this was a bad idea. But ...
Roundup: Engineers leaving finance, Papermaster countersues, and more
VentureBeat —
... Intel got Microsoft to say its computers were fully Vista-capable when they weren’t — Court filing here. ...
No more waiting for Vista (until you actually boot up)
GMSV —
... . Prices at the Microsoft Store are right around full list, with substantially better deals often as nearby as Amazon. In any case, let’s hope that the concept of truth in labeling is taken a little more seriously inside the store than it was during the “Vista Capable” shenanigans . ...
MS e-mails show deep Intel push for Vista label
MacNN | The Macintosh News Network —
[image] Additional e-mail messages have been published through court filings in the investigation of the Vista Capable logo lawsuit that suggest Intel was applying the highest levels of pressure to lower the system requirements ahead of Vista's launch. Intel chief Paul Otellini reportedly contacted Microsoft head Steve Ballmer ahead of the release to petition the inclusion of Intel's GMA 915 chipset in the logo program, increasing pressure on Microsoft to allow the chipset even though it knew the hardware's video performance would be inadequate for Windows Vista's ...
MS e-mails show deep Intel push for Vista label
Electronista | The Macintosh News Network —
[image] Additional e-mail messages have been published through court filings in the investigation of the Vista Capable logo lawsuit that suggest Intel was applying the highest levels of pressure to lower the system requirements ahead of Vista's launch. Intel chief Paul Otellini reportedly contacted Microsoft head Steve Ballmer ahead of the release to petition the inclusion of Intel's GMA 915 chipset in the logo program, increasing pressure on Microsoft to allow the chipset even though it knew the hardware's video performance would be inadequate for Windows Vista's ...
Intel-Microsoft Vistagate, Part 3
Microsoft Watch —
... I said most likely in February blog posts, after 158 pages of court documents were released as part of the Windows Vista Capable lawsuit. More sealed documents released yesterday , and they further suggest that monopolies Intel and Microsoft colluded to reduce the graphics standard to accommodate Intel's 915 chipset. First, some background: Court documents show that through the end of 2005, Microsoft planned a single logo certification program for Windows Vista. Graphics chipsets would have to meet the WDDM (Windows Display Drive Model) requirement to qualify for the Windows ...
Report: Allchin tried to stop Microsoft Vista-Certifying computers that couldn't run it properly
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... According to court documents, Microsoft not only knew that it was lying when it issued "Vista Capable" certification to computers with puny Intel 915 chipsets that had no such capability, but was thanked for it directly by Intel CEO Paul Ottelini. ...
More dirt in Vista Capable case surfaces
TG Daily - All News —
... confusion problem that flooded the PC market with Vista Capable computer systems that were not really able to run Windows Vista and support vistas new driver, reveal more about what was discussed between Microsoft, PC vendors and Intel. There seems to be no doubt that Microsoft knew a decision to allow certain Intel systems to sneak into the Vista Capable program may mislead its customers and yet the company followed through with that strategy. Guess why. A new 29-page filing made available through TechFlash , which follows a ...
From Windows Capable to the Linux laptop
Open Source —
... Up in Seattle, TechFlash is gleefully poring over court filings related to Microsoft requiring a specific graphics chipset in order for OEMs to get what it thought was a coveted designation. ...
Microsoft, Not Intel, Scrapped Vista Capable Hardware Requirements
ChannelWeb Complete Feed —
Microsoft executives apparently initiated the inclusion of Intel's older, Windows Vista-unready graphics chipsets in its Vista Capable logo campaign for PCs despite Intel's more moderate request that the marketing campaign be delayed rather than fundamentally altered, newly unsealed evidence in a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft reveals. Court documents unsealed last Thursday by Judge Marsha Pechman in the class-action suit over Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft's Vista Capable stickers add some new details and famous names to the explosive, inside-baseball narrative of ...
Vista-related e-mails I’d like to read (but probably won’t)
All about Microsoft —
... reading is ancient history (with most of the missives dating from 2005 and 2006). I want the background on some more current Vista-related decisions and events. The Vista Capable suit focuses on whether Microsoft deserves punishment for leading customers to believe that “Windows Vista Capable” PCs running a stripped-down version of its operating system were actually less than capable. While Microsoft had hoped to sweep the suit under the rug, the e-mail evidence — especially between Microsoft and Intel, and Microsoft and HP — have proven to juicy to ignore. Now ...
Ballmer Must Testify In Microsoft Vista Capable Suit
ChannelWeb Complete Feed —
... (UI) features of Vista such as the Aero Glass graphic interface. Ballmer discusses the Vista Capable campaign in several internal Microsoft e-mails that have been unsealed in batches since the lawsuit was given class-action status by Judge Marsha Pechman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle. Pechman ruled late Friday that Ballmer possessed "unique personal knowledge" of facts relevant to the case and must face questioning. Court documents unsealed about a week ago added some new details and famous names to the explosive, ...
