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twitter writes "The New York Times has a piercing analysis of documents
from the Vista capable lawsuit. The documents show that Microsoft seems
to have put a wrench in Vista's driver situation only at the last
minute. 'Late OS code changes broke drivers and applications, forcing
key commodities to miss launch or limp out with issues,' said one slide
in a Dell presentation dated March 25, 2007, about two months after
Vista's launch at retail and availability on new PCs.' We have all
heard the lazy vendors don't believe Vista will launch excuses but few
of us have heard Steven Sinofsky, chief of Windows development, second
and third opinions. 'Massive changes in the underpinnings for video and
audio really led to a poor experience at RTM,' he said. 'This change
led to incompatibilities. For example, you don't get Aero with an XP
driver, but your card might not (ever) have a Vista driver.' Finally,
said Sinofsky, other changes in Vista blocked Windows XP drivers
altogether. 'This is across the board for printers, scanners, WAN,
accessories and so on. Many of the associated applets don't run within
the constraints of the security model or the new video/audio driver
models.'
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