More than two years before Microsoft Corp. extended Windows XP’s life span so makers of new low-cost laptops could install the operating system, a company analyst had warned that Vista’s “harsher” system requirements might mean trouble, according to internal e-mails.
The messages were among the hundreds made public by a federal judge two months ago, in a case where consumers have accused Microsoft with misleading PC buyers with its “Vista Capable” program in the months leading up to the operating system’s release. Recently, that judge suspended the lawsuit while another court hears Microsoft’s appeal of the decision to grant the case class-action status.
In early 2006, Gregg Daugherty, an analyst in Microsoft’s hardware group, told Windows marketing executives that the personal computer market was skewing toward less-expensive laptops. “We all know laptops are growing, but I’m struck by the magnitude, especially in the home,” said Daugherty in an e-mail on Feb. 28, 2006[...]
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