Slashdot | Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista

Slashdot | Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista: "Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista
Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 28, @01:14PM

from the you-scratch-my-back dept.

The Courts Windows

bfwebster writes 'Microsoft is currently facing a class-action suit over its designation of allegedly under-powered hardware as being 'Vista Capable.' The discovery process of that lawsuit has now compelled Microsoft to produce some internal emails discussing those issues. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has published extracts of some of those emails, along with a link to a a PDF file containing a more extensive email exchange. The emails reflect a lot of frustration among senior Microsoft personnel about Vista's performance problems and hardware incompatibilities. They also appear to indicate that Microsoft lowered the hardware requirements for 'Vista Capable' in order to include certain lower-end Intel chipsets, apparently as a favor to Intel: 'In the end, we lowered the requirement to help Intel make their quarterly earnings so they could continue to sell motherboards with 915 graphics embedded.' Read the whole PDF; it is informative, interesting, and at times (unintentionally) funny.'"

Marlins want fat men who can dance

The Florida Marlins are looking for some footloose fat men. The National League team is creating an all-male, plus-size cheerleading squad to be dubbed the Manatees. Tryouts were scheduled for Sunday.

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Mr. “Pottymouth” Rogers

» Pic of the Day Dept. Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log.

Chavez Threatens To Cut United States Off | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Chavez Threatens To Cut United States Off | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: "Chavez Threatens To Cut United States Off

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has threatened to stop sending oil to the United States, citing Washington’s role in aiding Exxon Mobil with a lawsuit against nationalizing the country’s oil. What do you think?


Bettie Arnold,
Systems Analyst
'Bullies like Chavez should never underestimate the little guy—in this case, Exxon Mobil.'


Pedro Barajas,
Hotel Clerk
'I'm surprised by how relatively reasonable this threat is.'


Adam Metz,
Carpet Installer
'Exxon Mobil or Hugo Chavez. Please don't make me choose sides here.'"

Duck!

No seriously, duck!

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End of the Road for Polaroid Instant Film

Polaroid Corp. is dropping the technology it pioneered long before digital photography rendered instant film obsolete to all but a few nostalgia buffs. This year's closures will leave Polaroid with 150 employees at its Concord headquarters and a site in the nearby Boston suburb of Waltham, down from peak global employment of nearly 21,000 in 1978.

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