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

[azmodie]

  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."*

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