Microsoft Execs On Vista Problems, Unsealed Emails! It Just Gets Better!

[Marik]

During the whole "Vista Capable" Fiasco Microsoft decided to release previously labeled Confidential Emails between top Microsoft Execs including Steve Ballmer, Jim Allchin and many other people who were heavily involved on the development of Windows Vista. These Emails discuss known Hardware incompatibility going back all the way to Pre-Beta 2 builds. A heavily discussed topic was the involvement of WDDM Drivers regarding the Intel 915 Chipset which at the time was a popular Chipset.

In the end, we lowered the requirement to help Intel make their quarterly earnings so they could continue to sell motherboards with the 915 graphics embedded. This in turn did two things: 1. Decreased focus of OEMs planning and shipping higher end graphics for Vista-ready programs and 2. Reduced the focus by IHV's to ready great WHQL [Windows Hardware Quality Labs] qualified graphics drivers. We can see this today with Intel's inability to ship a compelling full featured 945 graphics driver for Windows Vista.

Another discussed area was how the "Vista Capable" scheme would go which HP and other MS partners didn't like. Wal-Mart also give their 2 cents complaining that the scheme would ensure customer confusion, wanting a sticker that would strictly say be for Home basic and a sticker for the rest of the editions.

Source: SeattlePI Blog ↓

Contains Full Story including emails

[irefay]

It was probibly Dock who orriginaly posted about patching a problem vs finding a solution for the problem. This is a classic case. Hmmm our primary producer of processers and mobo's is having issues with our latest release, we can:

1. Take our standards down a few levels and unless our project managers are phenomenal there will be major hiccups post-release.

2. We can ignore the problem, Im sure Intel will get there act together one of these quarters

3. Provide Vista with dual logic capabilities, so that it changes its performance depending on which chip set it is working with.

4. Look at how huge the Vista reliese is and send the most knowledgeable developers over to Intel to get their asses inline and onboard.

Ladies and Gents, there you have it.