Jason Dunn
03-07-2008, 01:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080305-the-vista-capable-debacle-intel-pushes-microsoft-bends.html' target='_blank'>http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...soft-bends.html</a><br /><br /></div><em>"When we learned Windows Vista would come in three consumer editions, we were surprised: wasn't two enough? New evidence supports the possibility that the birth of the most controversial of these—Windows Vista Home Basic—was rooted in an attempt to sell aging hardware and survive yet another holiday season without a new release of Windows. while this remain just a hypothesis for now, it is clear that Microsoft made compromises to what it considered the minimum specifications for full Vista support in order to accommodate Intel."</em><br /><br />An interesting article about Intel pressuring Microsoft to loosen their hardware requirements for Windows Vista, which resulted in a lot of computers running Vista that probably shouldn't have. And then people wonder why Vista is "so slow" on their designed-for-XP hardware...