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Second most embarrassing tech video of all time

"Vista — I've got to get me some of that!". Yes, this is a real internal Microsoft motivational video… embarrassingly it is current day era.

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The day another Vista feature died
(and I stumbled on a scoop)

vista launch The day another Vista feature died<br> (and I stumbled on a scoop)It's one of the biggest thrills a journalist can experience: stumbling upon a scoop of worldwide relevance.

You hear a corporate executive say something in the midst of a stream of marketing fluff, and your adrenalin starts pumping… did I just hear right? Did other journalists in the room pick up on this? Are there any other journalists in the room? How can I get this story online right away?

That happened to me at the Intel Developer Conference in San Francisco yesterday. It was a small fact dropped by a Microsoft exec that was a red-hot poker: a blow for Intel, the PC hardware industry, the Mac community and PC end-users who were eagerly awaiting the release of Microsoft's next-generation operating system, Windows Vista.

This story was going to be big. Its ramifications were:

  • Microsoft was removing another key feature from the next generation generation Windows Vista before shipping
  • Buyers of the new Intel-based Macs who had been hoping they could dual-boot Windows and OS X on the one PC would find out for the first time that they won't be able to… ever.
  • The whole PC industry would lose a major incentive to move on from the 20-year-old PC architecture onto a new modern platform
  • Intel was getting a public slap in the face from Microsoft at its own worldwide Intel Developer Conference, with Microsoft saying it was putting the brakes on adopting one of Intel's key technologies at a critical moment.

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