[mdlug-discuss] WinTel collusion comes back to bite butts

[Aaron Kulkis]

Michael Rudas wrote:
> For over a year I have been saying that it appeared that Microsoft had
> "dumbed down" WinVista's Aero interface to work on lower-end Intel
> integrated-graphics chipsets -- to the detriment of whatever it was
> they were trying to accomplish with Aero.  Now it appears that the
> whole story is even WORSE than that; Microsoft LIED with the so-called
> "Windows Vista Capable" program to help Intel's bottom line --
> allowing them to "certify" the still-in-channel, crappy-but-profitable
> 915 integrated-graphics chipset:
> <http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/132891.asp>
> <http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/132989.asp>
> <http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/library/vistaexhibitsone.pdf>
> (PDF link)
> 

Some of those e-mails are (unintentionally) hilarious.
Example one executive listing among software which
isn't running on Vista, among others, drivers and spyware.
I wonder exactly WHOSE spyware he's talking about, and
there's no indication that he considers it desirable
that spyware not run on Vista, as the others are clearly
problems that they won't run.



> If Microsoft eventually sinks beneath the waves with barely a ripple
> they only have themselves to blame.