SENIOR Microsoft staff complained about misleading advertising and Windows Vista incompatibility issues in a series of embarrassing emails made public during a court case.

In the emails, published online by The New York Times, corporate vice president for Windows product management Mike Nash said he "got burned" after purchasing a notebook computer advertised as "Vista Capable" that was incapable of running the full version of the operating system.

Even more embarrassingly, Microsoft chief operating officer Jon A Shirley chose not to upgrade one of his computers to Vista after discovering it was not compatible with several of his peripheral devices including a printer and two scanners.

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Microsoft staff also discussed a decision to lower Vista’s hardware requirements to encourage sales, with one manager warning the move would result in "a complete tragedy".

In one email sent to senior Microsoft staff including general manager for Windows Brad Brooks, Mr Nash said he had wound up with a "$2100 email machine" after buying a notebook that was incapable of running the full version of Windows Vista.

"Are we seeing this from a lot of customers?" Mr Nash asked in the email.
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Awful isnt it? I bought an Acer desktop about a month after Vista came out, and it was never that good. It only had 1GB RAM and it had premium installed. It was fine for a while with no programs, but as soon as I popped some programs on it, it slowed right down. I upgraded the RAM, but it's still slow. (It only has an AMD Athlon X2 3800+ processor, 2GHZ)
I just wish that they would have XP preinstalled on these kind of machines, as they are obviously not capable of running vista.

Hi Paul you are right actually today rather than promoting microsoft is making people compel to use Vista. New laptops are being manufactured and are taken care that they wont be found compatible with Windows Xp. It is something so frustrating to know on the part of Microsoft and as a common user,

Originally Posted by penguinpaul

Awful isnt it? I bought an Acer desktop about a month after Vista came out, and it was never that good. It only had 1GB RAM and it had premium installed. It was fine for a while with no programs, but as soon as I popped some programs on it, it slowed right down. I upgraded the RAM, but it's still slow. (It only has an AMD Athlon X2 3800+ processor, 2GHZ)
I just wish that they would have XP preinstalled on these kind of machines, as they are obviously not capable of running vista.