M$, Intel ganged up to cheat customers!!!

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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."
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There is a link providing copies of damning emails. Anyone interested to know more head here:
Microsoft lowered Vista requirements to help Intel sell incompatible chipsets - Engadget
 
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Microsoft internal emails trashes 945G / 915G chipsets under Vista



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Intel forced Microsoft to lower its standards

Late Friday night our time a big story broke out that involves a bunch of leaked emails from inside Microsoft where chaps such as Steven Sinofsky (Sr. VP, Windows) emailed Steve Ballmer (CEO) with claims that Intel 945 “barely” works with Vista. He also advised that classifying 915 as Vista capable is a bad call.

Microsoft lowered the Vista requirement after which even Intel 915 chipset qualified for Vista and one of the group managers described this as a tragedy and that “Based on objective criteria that exist today for capable even a piece of junk will qualify”. These are brave words from Anantha Kancherla (Group Program Manager...Direct X development).

Microsoft lowered the targets and made 915 as Vista capable and everyone knows that this chipset cannot even run the Aero interface. Intel 945 can barely run the same interface that is the most appealing feature of Vista while things gets better with 965 chipset and higher.

This is going to help the class action against Microsoft's Vista capable program and it will definitely start a big inquiry in business standards.

This is the first time in years that such a big deal becomes a public matter and we know that Intel and big guys such as HP and Dell are almost completely controlling the markets and basically can force whatever they want or cause companies a big losses.
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Fudzilla - Microsoft internal emails trashes 945G / 915G chipsets under Vista
 
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