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____/ NoStop on Thursday 28 February 2008 07:59 : \____
> jxzk wrote:
>
>> I guess this is a slap in the face to the blind supporters of vista, who
>> claim "you have to be smart to install vista", implying that the people
>> who have problems or just dont like it are not smart. Lets see who laughs
>> last though!
>>
>> Even top officials struggled to make vista work!!! See LINK below
>>
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/352993_msftvista28.html
>>
>> Even some of Microsoft Corp.'s top officials struggled to make Windows
>> Vista work smoothly when it was released, according to internal e-mails
>> released Wednesday.
>>
>>
>> To read the unsealed Microsoft e-mails, see goto.seattlepi.com/r1289
>> The messages, unsealed in a lawsuit against the company, show that Vista's
>> early problems with hardware and software compatibility affected more than
>> just average PC users. The e-mails also illustrate how the company will
>> try to avoid such issues in the next Windows release.
>>
>> "We need to be clearer with industry, and we need to decide what we will
>> do and do that well and 100 percent and not just do a little of
>> everything," wrote Steven Sinofsky, the Microsoft executive who took over
>> Windows engineering after Vista's retail release in January 2007.
>>
>> The scattershot approach left hardware makers "in a confused state,"
>> Sinofsky added in the February 2007 e-mail, not long after he assumed the
>> post. The message is notable in part because Sinofsky has been publicly
>> quiet about Microsoft's plans for the next version, known by the internal
>> code name Windows 7.
>>
>> Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer endorsed Sinofsky's sentiment
>> succinctly. "Righto," Ballmer replied.
>>
>> Those and other messages were made public as part of a lawsuit alleging
>> that Microsoft deceived consumers before Windows Vista's launch by touting
>> PCs as "Windows Vista Capable" even if they could run only Windows Vista
>> Home Basic. That bare-bones version lacks many of Windows Vista's
>> signature features, such as slick graphics.
>>
>> The lawsuit was granted class-action status last week. The e-mails
>> unsealed Wednesday, previously disclosed only in snippets, focus in part
>> on an internal debate over the standards for the "Windows Vista Capable"
>> designation. But they also expose a broader discussion about the operating
>> system's compatibility problems.
>>
>> Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans said in a statement Wednesday: "Throughout
>> this process, Microsoft employees raised concerns and addressed issues
>> with the intent to make this program better for our business partners and
>> valuable for consumers. That's the sort of exchange we want to encourage.
>> And in the end, we believe we succeeded in achieving both objectives."
>>
>> One February 2007 exchange started with an e-mail to Ballmer from
>> Microsoft board member Jon Shirley, who explained that he upgraded one of
>> his computers to Vista only to find it was experiencing problems working
>> with two of Microsoft's own MSN applications. Shirley wrote that he wasn't
>> upgrading his other computer because of a lack of hardware drivers.
>>
>> Microsoft and PC makers used "Windows Vista Capable" stickers in an
>> attempt to maintain sales of Windows XP machines during the 2006 holiday
>> shopping season, after Windows Vista's retail release was delayed to early
>> 2007. The internal e-mails reveal an extensive debate inside Microsoft
>> over the hardware specifications needed to qualify.
>>
>> One message points to chip maker Intel Corp., a key Microsoft partner, to
>> explain the decision to lower the requirements a piece of hardware needed
>> to qualify for the "Windows Vista Capable" designation.
>>
>> "In the end, we lowered the requirement to help Intel make their quarterly
>> earnings so they could continue to sell motherboards with the 915 graphics
>> embedded," Microsoft executive John Kalkman wrote in the message,
>> referring to a class of Intel graphics technology that doesn't work with
>> Windows Vista's most-advanced graphics technology, known as Aero Glass.
>>
>> In another message, Microsoft executive Mike Nash wrote that he
>> "personally got burned by the Intel 915 chipset issue."
>>
>> "I know that I chose my laptop (a SONY TX770P) because it had the Vista
>> logo and was pretty disappointed that it not only wouldn't run Glass, but
>> more importantly wouldn't run Movie Maker," Nash wrote. "I now have a
>> $2,100 e-mail machine."
>>
>> Other messages make it clear that the lowered requirements for the "Vista
>> Capable" designation angered computer-maker Hewlett-Packard and retailers.
>>
>> In a February 2006 e-mail, Robin Leonard, a Microsoft employee, wrote that
>> Wal-Mart officials were "extremely disappointed in the fact that the
>> standards were lowered and feel like customer confusion will ensue."
>>
>> She added later, "Please give this some consideration; it would be a lot
>> less costly to do the right thing for the customer than to spend dollars
>> on the back end trying to fix the problem."
That must be why they leave the company. They need some more time to install
the 'shiny' new operating system, which is a sibling of Windows Server 2008
(Microsoft Watch already says it has many missing pieces).
Microsoft has a couple of more years to go before it becomes another IBM (in a
bad sense).
___
Vista marketing chief to bid Microsoft adieu
,----[ Quote ]
| Michael Sievert, Corporate Vice President for Windows Product Marketing, is
| moving on, according to multiple sources of mine.
|
| It’s hard to make the case that Sievert, who was responsible for the
| worldwide introduction of Windows Vista, isn’t being pushed for the
| less-than-enthusiastic public perception of Microsoft’s latest version of
| Windows. Even though Microsoft has moved 100-million-plus copies of Vista,
| many consumers and businesses still consider the new release buggy, sluggish
| and incompatible with existing software and drivers.
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1158
Raikes and Other Exits
,----[ Quote ]
| It's weird that Mini and all the commenters here have failed to notice the
| mass exodus from the Xbox team in 2007. By my count, more than 15% of the
| product team (dev/PM/test) have left Microsoft for Apple, Sony, Google,
| Yahoo, MySpace, Amazon, and various other companies (including several
| startups, local and in the Valley).
`----
http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/01/raikes-and-other-exits.html
Another Microsoft manager jumps from the Live Search ship
,----[ Quote ]
| Mike Nichols, Group Program Manager for Live Search, has resigned and is
| moving to work for Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President of Strategic
| Partnerships.
|
| [...]
|
| What to make of all the recent resignations and reshufflings among the
| various Microsoft business units? Well, it is reorg season in Redmond. But on
| the Live Search side of the house, it’s got to be tough to keep banging your
| head against the wall and making little or no headway in growing your market
| share….
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1115
Veteran Windows architect resigns from Microsoft
,----[ Quote ]
| On the heels of a week of news of a number of Microsoft executive departures
| and reshufflings, another has come to light. Rob Short, Corporate Vice
| President for Windows Core, has resigned from the company.
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1110
Juniper Networks exec to succeed Microsoft Business Division President Raikes
,----[ Quote ]
| Another reason I consider the Raikes announcement timing odd: Why announce
| Raikes’ departure a day after acknowledging the defection of your mergers and
| acquisitions chief Bruce Jaffe? You could make the argument that Microsoft
| wants to get all its defection/churn announcements out of the way at once.
| But I’m not sure I’d look at things the same way, if I were one of the
| company’s “image makers”….
|
| Microsoft also announced on January 10 that Bob Muglia, the Senior Vice
| President in charge of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business, is going to
| move out of the Business Division and report directly to CEO Steve Ballmer.
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1101
Microsoft loses top executive in China
,----[ Quote ]
| "Li Gong is currently exploring other career opportunities," Microsoft said
| in a statement to News.com.
|
| [...]
|
| In a September 2005 Business Week interview, Ballmer touted Gong as
| one of several key hires that Microsoft had made.
|
| Most recently, Gong has served as managing director of Windows LiveC
| hina and as Vice President of Microsoft China R&D Group.
|
| Gong's name came up in the case over Kai-Fu Lee, the top Microsoft
| executive whose hiring by Google sparked a multistate legal battle.
`----
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6149735.html
Microsoft losing acquisition playmaker
,----[ Quote ]
| In a previous life Jaffe was the CFO for Microsoft's MSN division, and also
| had roles overseeing acquisitions related to Microsoft's consumer business,
| groups like MSNBC and Microsoft Games.
`----
http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9847376-37.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Microsoft’s OEM chief defects to Lenovo
,----[ Quote ]
| While so many of us Microsoft watchers were preoccupied with the hasty
| departure of former Microsfot CIO Stuart Scott, the resignation of the
| company’s OEM chief slipped right by most of us.
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=999
Related:
Will Microsoft Survive the Next 10 Years?
,----[ Quote ]
| I am not really an expert in this but when I read all the negative
| headlines and articles I ask myself if Microsoft really will survive
| the next 10 years.
|
| [...]
|
| I am pretty sure that the Open Source Community, the new Ubuntu,
| Google and of course Apple are those companies that are ready for
| our century and they will get more and more people that know what
| they really want.
`----
http://websquirrel.blogspot.com/2007/03/will-microsoft-survive-next-10-years.html
Microsoft Windows hardware leader takes a ‘vacation’
,----[ Quote ]
| Veteran Softies are dropping like flies lately. The latest Microsoft exec to
| leave is Jawad Khaki, Corporate Vice President of the Windows Hardware
| Ecosystem.
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1002
Danny Thorpe quits the Windows Live development team
,----[ Quote ]
| Danny Thorpe, one of the higher-profile hires Microsoft made to its Windows
| Live team, has decided to leave for greener pastures.
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=806
Microsoft’s open source chief takes on Windows server marketing
,----[ Quote ]
| The change comes amid a long-building storm that exploded in May, when the
| company said that Linux violates 235 Microsoft patents.
`----
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/100807-microsoft-open-source-windows-server.html
Microsoft says Zune executive will leave company
,----[ Quote ]
| Bryan Lee, corporate vice president at Microsoft's entertainment
| and devices division, also played a key role in shaping the Xbox
| game console business and the introduction of its Internet
| Protocol television software.
`----
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6155200.html
Yet another Microsoft search exec calls it quits
,----[ Quote ]
| In March, Blake Irving, the Corporate VP in charge of the Windows
| Live platform, announced his plans to leave Microsoft, effective
| this summer. Payne announced his resignation from Microsoft shortly
| after Irving made his announcement.
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=407
at least no chairs were thrown…
,----[ Quote ]
| A friend of mine was walked out of Microsoft today.
|
| I’m not talking about Stuart Scott, the now former Microsoft CIO who was
| canned for “violating company policies.” No, another friend decided to leave
| the MSN Live Search team and join Google Kirkland.
`----
http://selberg.org/2007/11/06/at-least-no-chairs-were-thrown/
Another Microsoft Search reorg: Shum now leads engineering
,----[ Quote ]
| That same month, Windows Live Platform VP Blake Irving resigned, as did Chris
| Payne. the Corporate Vice President in charge of Windows Live Search.
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=927
Former Microsoft Search Chief Bill Bliss On Early Search Missteps
,----[ Quote ]
| Bill's biggest regret? Not bypassing middle management that wasn't
| listening to him scream about the coming threat of Google and going
| right up to Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
`----
http://searchengineland.com/070309-094930.php
Microsoft Search Leader To Leave Company
,----[ Quote ]
| The Microsoft Corp. vice president who led the company's push into
| Internet search is leaving the software giant as the effort he
| helped launch loses ground against lead competitor Google Inc.
`----
http://online.wsj.com/preview_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB117329976478329930.html%3Fmod%3Dyahoo_hs%26ru%3Dyahoo
http://tinyurl.com/2jran7
Microsoft Businesss Solutions Group's Burgum to resign
,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft Corp.'s Business Solutions group senior vice president Doug
| Burgum will resign, effective June 30, and leave the company to pursue
| other opportunities, the company said on Tuesday.
`----
http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20060912:MTFH70760_2006-09-12_16-35-37_N9C318839&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/h4coe
Database head to leave daily duties at Microsoft
,----[ Quote ]
| Paul Flessner, who leads Microsoft's data storage and platform
| division, will step down from his daily duties after the new year.
`----
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6131496.html
XBLA's Ross Erickson leaves Microsoft, heads over to Sierra Online
,----[ Quote ]
| Of course, this follows XBLA General Manager Greg Canessa's
| departure a couple weeks back. While having two of the most
| senior Xbox Live Arcade execs jump ship in a two week time
| span after a particularly long string of subpar Wednesdays
| -- nothing, Ms. Pac-Man, Lumines add-on, nothing, Root Beer
| Tapper, Paperboy, nothing -- might seem to imply certain
| disaster, Ross insisted that he and Greg's decided to
| leave under entirely different circumstances.
`----
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/02/20/xblas-ross-erickson-leaves-microsoft-heads-over-to-sierra-onli/
http://tinyurl.com/25s6he
XBLA main man jumps ship
,----[ Quote ]
| In somewhat surprising news, Greg Canessa, the big guy behind
| Xbox Live Arcade, has left the Microsoft compound for PopCap Games.
`----
http://www.destructoid.com/xbla-main-man-jumps-ship-29716.phtml
Microsoft Windows Live VP to resign
,----[ Quote ]
| Blake Irving, a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Windows
| Live Platform group, is resigning his post, according to sources
| close to the company.
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=296
Evangelist Gartenberg back to being analyst
,----[ Quote ]
| After only three weeks at Microsoft as an "evangelist," Michael
| Gartenberg is returning to his old job as vice president and
| research director at JupiterResearch.
`----
http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6165381.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
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