Posted by Will in Seattle at 2/28/08 4:25 p.m.

Hoist by their own electronic petard.

Posted by unregistered user at 2/28/08 10:09 p.m.

Forget sinking - one wonders whether the ship has already sunk, and much like Iraq or a recession, by the time the problem's identified it's already too late.

Like "A people" hire B people, "D companies" acquire C companies. Yahoo circa 2008 is a C company.

All MS had to do was release an iterative XP (SP+1) and call it Vista. That they overpromised, underdelivered, lied to themselves, and then expected the rest of the world to believe those same lies and buy it says how little is left.

Posted by unregistered user at 2/29/08 4:03 a.m.

Good picks, Todd.

Posted by unregistered user at 2/29/08 5:52 a.m.

Windows is already depreciated and living on a support air supply.

R.I.P. Windows

Linux all the way !! Yaa !!

Posted by unregistered user at 2/29/08 6:33 a.m.

Microsoft -- linux hardware drivers ??????

Posted by unregistered user at 2/29/08 6:34 a.m.

I guess someone at Microsoft forgot about their 90 email retention policy.

Posted by unregistered user at 2/29/08 8:07 a.m.

When a company reaches the point of sloppiness in their shady business where they start communicating about it over email, thereby providing a written track of their wrongdoings, they have lost the grip on reality and started thinking of themselves as untouchable.
This sort of behavior will eventually bring about their demise. If it continues, the fall will be both sooner and harder than I thought.

Posted by unregistered user at 2/29/08 8:47 a.m.

As mentioned, by having more (older) machines seen as Vista Capable it helps Microsoft (short term) by selling more upgrade copies of Vista. But it shows they were more concerned about sales than customer satisfaction since it was quite clear these addditional users would have a lousy experience.

Steve Jobs has his flaws, but how often does he ship lousy products?

Posted by unregistered user at 2/29/08 9:41 a.m.

Isn't this Vista Capable marketing campaign Microsoft's doing in the first place? My laptop came with a sticker like that (which I peeled off) and installed Ubuntu Linux on. I've been using it since (nearly 2 years on this machine), and the compiz-fusion effects (search youtube) are great on the intel 945gm integrated video (915 chipset...)

Even if some people at Microsoft had doubts, they still went through with it. If it can only run the bare bones version, it is bait and switch. They deceived customers and retailers. If they appeased intel by selling more computers this way, each machine came with a Windows license, and a user that (if they bought the machine for Vista compatibility) would spend money on that. And maybe that user would pick up a copy of Office too, since Vista's WordPad can no longer open .doc files... Ultimately this benefits Microsoft in the long run, if anything this probably hurt people's perception of Intel's graphics hardware.

What can I say, I'm glad not to be stuck using Microsoft's OS. Those holding on to XP, it will go into extended support soon, which means pay for updates. Feel free to search this, but Microsoft wanted to charge $40,000 dollars for the daylight savings fix for Windows 2000. They lowered it to the oh so reasonable price of $4000 dollars.
I got a free update for Ubuntu Linux for DST...

Microsoft treats customers this way because they think you can't use anything else. You need some app that is Windows only or runs Windows best. Well, take a look at the Wine project (run Windows apps without Windows at all), or virtualization. MS is promising that stuff, but Linux users have it now. If you have a recent (as in a couple of years) intel or amd chipset, you should have hardware virtualization support.

So if you are happy with Vista or whatever fine. If you aren't, do something about it.

Posted by rptizzle at 2/29/08 7:17 p.m.

Thanks for all the comments. I haven't installed Ubuntu on my Dell laptop because I've been afraid of not having all the functionality I currently have (lack of drivers). However, I think I'll give it a try. Open-source is the way to go. Freedom to the people!

Posted by unregistered user at 3/3/08 5:17 p.m.

"Windows 2000. They lowered it to the oh so reasonable price of $4000 dollars."
We've got hit by the DST fix on our Exchange2000. It solves the problem on the calendar/appointment issues. My question is why there is no minimum installation CD version for all uSoft OS'es. Like an XP lite or Vista Lite versions. Why we are force to pay for those extra programs that we don't need. They can put those extra programs on their web and just ask the user "pay per download" Why???

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Posted by unregistered user at 3/8/08 9:22 p.m.

Anyone got an actual picture of John Kalkman? Can't find on Google image.

"We don't know who John Kalkman is," said Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy this afternooon. "We do know he's not qualified to know anything about internal Intel financials or forecasts related to chipsets, motherboards or any other products."

Microsoft General Manager of OEM & Embedded Worldwide Engineering John Kalkman