[dundee] Microsoft Had Doubts About the 'Vista Capable' Label

[Tim Spencer]

own managers/executieves even

On 12/02/2008, azmodie <azmodie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Microsoft Had Doubts About the 'Vista Capable' Label
>  *Posted by Zonk <http://slashdot.org/%7EZonk/> on Tuesday February 12,
> @12:42PM*
> *from the marketing-will-make-it-all-better dept.*
>
> <http://yro.slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=109>
> <http://yro.slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=137>
>  dionysus writes *"Last April, Microsoft was sued<http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/03/183251&tid=201>over its 'Vista Capable' labeling, and in hearing last week, attorneys for
> the plaintiffs presented evidence that Microsoft employees were skeptical<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080211-vista-capable-scheme-was-panned-at-microsoft.html>about the 'Vista Capable' marketing. Some of the most damning evidence comes
> from Microsoft executives: 'Mike Nash, currently a corporate vice president
> for Windows product management, wrote in an e-mail, "I PERSONALLY got burnt
> ... Are we seeing this from a lot of customers? ... I now have a $2,100
> e-mail machine." Jim Allchin, then the co-president of Microsoft's Platforms
> and Services Division, wrote in another e-mail, "We really botched this ...
> You guys have to do a better job with our customers."' The judge in the case
> is currently considering the plaintiffs' request to make it a class-action
> lawsuit."*
>
> --
> You realy must be in trouble when you own employees have lost faith.
>
> azmodie
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