Back when Vista Company was announced, everyone was upset that they’d have to make significant hardware upgrades in order to accommodate the new operating system from Microsoft.
More Windows users had to buy new computers because it was less expensive than making the upgrades necessary to their then-current notebooks and desktops. However, there was a slight problem unresolved. The original date for the “Vista Capable” campaign was slated for June 1, 2006. For many reason, Microsoft decided to launch it 3 months earlier on April 1.

Some of the folks over at Intel were upset because the premature release would not give them enough time to make the chipsets necessary to run properly on Windows Vista. Now it looks as though the two company’s CEOs allegedly had a little agreement of their own – one that would misleadingly label machines with the inadequate Intel chips as “Vista Capable“. Though Microsoft and Intel employees were aware of the situation and were unhappy with it, the issue seemed to be controlled further up the corporate ladder.

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