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  • windows

    Microsoft And The $1,632 Copy Of Vista

    Microsoft charged Bill $1,632 for a single Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade license. Each time Bill, an IT Manager, tried to his enter his payment details through Windows Live Marketplace he was told that Microsoft could not be contacted, and to "please try again later." What Microsoft really meant was, "Ha! Got your money! How 'bout some more?!" More »

    1:16 PM on Sat May 24 2008
    By Carey
    114,074 views, 78 comments

    Latest by ValedaThymoetes: I am Larry Engel. I am the General Manager at Microsoft responsible for Windows Marketplace. Bill Park's transactions occurred on more »

  • backlash

    Creative Backs Down, Reinstates Spurned Developer

    Creative Labs heard your chest-beating across the internet and decided to reinstate spurned developer Daniel_K less than a week after booting him from their forums. Unlike Creative, Daniel_K issued drivers that allowed Creative sound cards to work properly under Vista, and even enabled previously crippled features. The drivers were downloaded over 100,000 times. The company thanked the developer by accusing him of "enabling our technology and IP to run on sound cards for which it was not originally offered or intended, [in] effect, stealing our goods." Even though he has been reinstated, Daniel_K is still pissed. More »

    11:39 AM on Sat Apr 5 2008
    By Carey
    7,062 views, 42 comments

    Latest by lostalaska: I bought a copy of Vista premium and installed it as a dual boot with win XP on my PC. more »

  • backlash

    Creative Sparks Customer Revolt When It Tries To Silence Third-Party Programmer

    Creative's executive team will be coming in to quite a mess Monday morning, thanks to its VP of Screw Ups, Phil O'Shaughnessy. Friday morning, he posted a warning on the Creative customer forums that told programmer Daniel_K to stop writing his own drivers for their X-Fi sound cards. The cards still won't work on Vista over a year after the OS was released, because Creative hasn't released drivers for them—but by Mr. O'Shaughnessy's account, Daniel_K is "stealing" from Creative by making the cards work. Then the weekend happened. More »

    2:07 AM on Mon Mar 31 2008
    By Chris Walters
    104,235 views, 140 comments

    Latest by Kay Bee: creative: jerks. more »

  • class actions

    Walmart Hated "Vista Home Basic" And Thought It Should Not Exist

    Computerworld has posted some excerpts from internal Microsoft emails that seem to imply that Walmart was not happy with "Vista Home Basic." More »

    7:21 PM on Tue Mar 4 2008
    By Meg Marco
    21,856 views, 57 comments

  • vista

    Even Microsoft Execs Hated On "Vista Capable" Labeling

    Microsoft's "Vista Capable" program was so misleading that even Microsoft executives complained about it according to emails revealed last week in court. The emails were read aloud at a hearing to determine class-action status for a related lawsuit against the company. One corporate vice president wrote, ""I PERSONALLY got burnt. ... Are we seeing this from a lot of customers? ... I now have a $2,100 e-mail machine." The co-president of another division wrote, "We really botched this. ... You guys have to do a better job with our customers." More »

    12:55 PM on Mon Feb 11 2008
    By Chris Walters
    8,753 views, 36 comments

    Latest by parnote: Why does everyone want to limit themselves either to a Windows machine or a Mac? Beat them all, and install more »

  • changes

    Not Everyone Loves Vista, XP To Remain Available Until June, 2008

    It seems people aren't taking to Vista as quickly as Microsoft would have liked. The result? XP will remain available through June 30, 2008. More »

    9:21 PM on Fri Sep 28 2007
    By Meg Marco
    3,131 views, 54 comments