Long URL of a Reuters article posted on Fidelity's website.
I must express the sentiment that I'm shocked-- shocked, I say!-- over how Microsoft would do such a thing. You ER'd Intel workers must be gnashing your teeth with despair at how low some of your co-workers/protégés have sunk since your departures. Imagine looking to Microsoft for help making Intel sales numbers. After all, Microsoft could've just offered to buy [-]Yahoo![/-] Intel.
But maybe Intel's not at fault after all:
In the class action suit, filed in March 2007, plaintiffs claim they "paid for Vista capability but did not receive it." Plaintiffs claim they were misled by stickers placed on certain PCs in stores during 2006, advertising them as "Vista Capable."
"In the end, we lowered the [Vista hardware] requirement to help Intel make their quarterly earnings so they could continue to sell motherboards with 915 graphics embedded," Microsoft general manager John Kalkman wrote in a Feb. 2007 email, shortly after Vista's release to consumers. "On suggestions for corrections to ease the customer pain going forward... there really is nothing we can do in the short term."
Mike Nash, a Microsoft corporate vice president for Windows product management, wrote in a Feb. 2007 email that, "I personally got burned by the Intel 915 chipset issue on a laptop that I personally [bought]."
I must express the sentiment that I'm shocked-- shocked, I say!-- over how Microsoft would do such a thing. You ER'd Intel workers must be gnashing your teeth with despair at how low some of your co-workers/protégés have sunk since your departures. Imagine looking to Microsoft for help making Intel sales numbers. After all, Microsoft could've just offered to buy [-]Yahoo![/-] Intel.
But maybe Intel's not at fault after all:
Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said Friday that, "John Kalkman has zero visibility into Intel's financial results related to chip sets, motherboards or any other products... he is not qualified to comment on our quarterly forecasts."
A Microsoft spokesman said in a statement Friday that the 915 chipset was included in the Vista marketing program only after it had been tested successfully on early versions of the software.