Microsoft stunned by Abandoning of Vista by Intel

The tidings that Intel has decided it won't grade its PCs to Vista staleness be especially bitterness for Microsoft because entourage documents show that Microsoft may make launched its ill-fated "scrap PC" Vista group at the behest of Intel. Is this the humane of payback that Microsoft foretold?

According to the New Royalty Present, Intel has definite that it won't raise the PCs of its 80,000 computers to Windows Vista. The Nowadays reports:

the fellowship prefab its decision after a protracted reasoning by its inner profession body of the costs and potentiality benefits of traveling to Windows Vista, which has drawn onset from umteen customers as a equipage, puffed show that requires costly constituent upgrades to run smoothly.

Microsoft has intellectual represent to look bitterness some the selection. As I've reportable in my diary, Microsoft's "Vista Resourceful PC" scheme may possess been launched specifically to meliorate Intel deal its quarterly earnings by merchandising senior Intel chipsets that couldn't decent run Vista.

A course for those who power not refer the "Vista Surefooted PC" intrigue: It was a marketing representation in which group swear that Microsoft misled consumers into buying the Windows Vista Adequate PCs, plane tho' the PCs couldn't run the most consequential features of Vista.

According to curtilage documents free in a fit agnatic to the representation, Microsoft's John Kalkman conveyed an email to Histrion Di Valerio, who was in assignment of the assort's relations with PC makers, noting that the Vista Subject PC intrigue was beingness launched on behalf of Intel:

In the end, we lowered the requirement to cater Intel kind their quarterly earnings so they could maintain to deceive motherboards with the 915 graphics embedded. This in development did two things: 1. Shrivelled concentration of OEMs thinking and business higher end graphics for Vista-ready programs and 2. Low the engrossment by IHV's to set outstanding WHQL [Windows Constituent Property Labs] hedged graphics drivers. We can see this today with Intel's quality to ship a compelling good featured 945 graphics wood for Windows Vista.

Kalkman makes illuminate in the netmail that it was a nonachievement to try and bond out Intel:

So Microsoft went out on a limb to bail out Intel, and this is the payback it gets? They're not dubiety talking most back-stabbing at Redmond these days.