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Best Buy forced Vole into Vista capable fiasco
WHILE MANY might think it was Intel which was responsible for pushing Microsoft into making silly claims about computers being Vista capable, CRN has come up with the suggestion that the real entity pressuring Vole was US retail giant Best Buy.
CRN has had a closer look at the emails that have been sent to the court in the class action case and claims that, while top Voles do say things like "We are caving to Intel," and "We are allowing Intel to milk the 915", there is something a little more obvious in the communications with Best Buy.
Long before the Intel emails, Best Buy apparently approved a two-tier marketing plan designed by Vista product manager Shanen Boettcher, marketing director Rajesh Srinivasan and, quite possibly, Will Poole.
On August ninth, 2005, Srinivasan told Boettcher that Best Buy had validated the two-tier approach which involved chart listing hardware requirements for what he calls Vista "capable" and "ready" systems.
This showed that Vista ready systems needed to have a "GPU with WVDDM support" but Vista capable systems did not and would therefore be unable to run the shiny new Aero Glass GUI.
The emails show that Microsoft was under pressure to delay its Vista marketing in a bid to get the OEMs to put pressure on Intel to kill off the 915 by October 2006. CRN suggests that the pressure came not from Chipzilla, which did not want to change its roadmap, but from retailers like Best Buy. µ
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If you want to try a 64-bit OS with full 64-bit driver support and running full 64-bit apps, try an open-source system, like Linux. Open-source folks have been supporting 64-bit for years (originally on non-Intel platforms like Alpha, PowerPC etc), so moving to AMD64 wasn't really that big a deal for them. All the major distros come in full 64-bit-native versions now.
All i have to say is.. what the F**K is microsoft_Ultie on about??! OMG LOL LMAO WTF?!

I've never heard the english language used in such a bizarre way. I tried to decipher it... but nah... I think he's a bit mental.
I'm absolutely Bellfounded! Great Mercury's Echo! Vista 32 is just a volish red herring! Many thanks to the channel and the web, and super sleuths in Loughborough and investor-engineer Drashek! That Intel email was right on spot! Why not get suits rolling on the right side of the pond? Does ULTIE have the number of Eurofed? "What's good for the goose, is good for the gander!" Eh_ voles are sitting ducks!
Not to be unkind but I can't understand what the heck .microsoft_Ultie is saying. lol /presses grammar check button.
Someone needs to take their meds.....
Two tiers implies one works, at least. Today, Home Server is being sold to Public as Windows Media Center for reasonable price & close to Ultimate, with Media Center-=EXCEPT: Home Server is only 32 bit=-.

Now TOP Dalhi: Ultimate64: simply languishes.I don't wish to be Doggie Lamie, except somethings' missing here. Granted all early adapters have been squeezed by Microvole in every launch of major O/S, including Now and having good base of new machines to perfect is required, Still by Today, public is missing out.

I'm calling orrin from: itsJerrytime, Jerry running for Hon. President this year & I, Ultie Tom, telling em' - My system is unstable-. Yeah, Jerry will get em.

Blah,blah. How about main, main that kicks 64 about in Media Center or else-Mr.Gates?. Go grab Dresser & Chew.Its NOT Best Buys Fault, they are marketeers, if BEST Buy could find TOP 64 bit Ultimate system to sell, hey'd eat hole right thru your pants to get it.
Thomas Drashek.
still nothing really takes advantage of a 64 bit OS.....software makers and hardware makers are way behind on 64 bit tech.......so why even go to Vista for 64 bit..when there is a 64 bit XP..with better driver support..hmmm..ponder that for awhile...xp is still the better....32 or 64 bit
The memory market is cratering because Vista 32-bit can only access 3.25GB RAM at best so the memory upgrade treadmill is stuck. There never should have been a 32-bit edition of Vista but Intel had too many obsolete 32-bit-only CPUs on the market and that would have been way more embarrassing than their 915 chipset. So Microsoft saved Intel at the cost of screwing AMD, which designed the AMD64 standard while Intel clung to their Itanic, and all the DRAM makers. 

Breaking the 4GB RAM barrier with 64-bit Vista is the only thing that's worth the pain of "upgrading" to Vista in the first place. 

Posted from a 64-bit Vista SP1 4GB RAM AMD64 PC.
It just goes to show that no activity should be undertaken on August the ninth except listening to birds sing and watching hippies cry.