viscountalpha: That was Allchin saying that, not Ballmer.

Does he because everytime something like this happens it's always the same excuse "I have nothing to do with this" hang on your the CEO I thought everything decision had to go through the man at the top 1st.

HP's PC are rubbish anyways but they have the right to be pissed off because the decided to upgrade there systems to at least make VISTA work. And surly AMD can use this as leverage in there court case that they asked Microsoft to downgrade VISTA's specs in order for it to run on there lowest chipset when it couldn't in the 1st place and INTEL knew it. AMD never even got a word in or told about it I mean I do recall that they decided to release boards with the HD2400 intergrated into it so that would be fine better than that INTEL shite.

I wish INTEL would stop creating Chipset and IGP's there rubbish not 1 I've come across is ever good enough no matter what series it is.

"Now we have an upset partner, Microsoft destroyed credibility, as well as my own credibility shot."

No. No good sir, you blew your credibility when you started screaming "developers! developers! developers!"

Ballmer is a gigantic idiot and his flailing about proves my point. Either he knew and let someone else be the fall guy or he didn't know and is really that incompetent.

The sooner microsoft drops him, the better.

I think HP is completely justified in being angry with Microsoft on this one.
They developed new platforms based on more advanced technology than what was standard at the time, at a cost to themselves. Why? So that they would meet the requirements for a Vista system to work properly. They even discussed this with Microsoft beforehand.
Then Microsoft goes and waters down the requirements, HPs superior machines get undercut on price, with consumers buying cheap machines that can't run Vista properly even though they have the right logos from Microsoft saying they can.
Who loses? HP loses sales; but more importantly, a very large number of customers buy machines in good faith and get scr3wed. Angry? Hell yeah!
Hp is angry, and so are the ripped-off consumers.

It's nice to see what a bunch of money grubbers HP consists of, thankfully I have never bought anything with HP on it (short of my all-in-one printer -- I get the ink from Staples, thanks). A bunch of belly-achin' whiners crying that somebody else is making sales that they weren't on the ball enough to take advantage of, well here's a big Boo Hoo for your multi-billion dollar corporation!
Ballmer shows himself as a great big raging ass hole, deflecting the blame cuz he doesn't know anything, wow what a great revelation there!! My response is, what's new dipshit, when did you ever know anything? Fool.
Lordy lordy, people need to get over their stupid Microsoft PC garbage & switch to Ubuntu or something else, pronto. Don't switch to apple tho, they're an even worse bunch.

+1
Thanks for not layering the quotes with personal notes!

Microsoft, Angelina Jolie, and more than 25 law firms and corporate law departments announced the formation of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), a new national children’s advocacy initiative with the mission of providing pro Bono legal counsel to unaccompanied children...

Microsoft partners include more than 750,000 companies worldwide that are building products and businesses based on Microsoft platforms and products. 

Now, with the help of Angelina Jolie and Bono, Microsoft are developing the next-generation of Microsoft Partners Program.

If HP had not wished to appear as illegitimate, feral animals, or as little vole vermin, they had better get adopted by Angelina and Bono, in Kind.

Young Hooded People are dangerous.
You better get HP under control thanks.
Try ostrichacising them by hiding our smooth heads in the sand thanks.

Vista is a pig and MS are in the s*** with it! ;-)

I saw some lipstick on the pig, speech recognition. I tried it out recently and it's ok but lacks functionality.

It can "Open Internet Explorer", but saying "address www.yahoo.com" comes out as a list with these choices:
Www.the it dot.com
www.the it dot.com
WWW.the it dot.com
Wwww got the it dot.com

I also tried "www.microsoft.com" and it came back with:
WWW.Microsoft dot.com
www.Microsoft dot.com
W. W. W..Microsoft dot.com
Wwww.Microsoft dot.com

Vista's Speech Tool doesn't even recognise web address commands. That's poor. For me it sums up Vista as something which looks good on the surface but isn't so good underneath.

However the speech tool is handy for dictation, but that's about all.

OMG...ROFL
I saw this happening yesterday

It is of interest to learn that Microsoft "differentiated" Vista to accommodate Intel's outdated hardware and goes to show that the Wintel monopoly is alive and well. 

It is of far greater concern when one realizes this effectively eliminated AMD's tremendous technological advantage over Intel for the better part of five years.