The Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management on Windows Vista
“Then there’s Mike, who buys a laptop that has a reassuring “Windows Vista Capable” logo affixed. He thinks that he will be able to run Vista in all of its glory, as well as favorite Microsoft programs like Movie Maker. His report: “I personally got burned.” His new laptop — logo or no logo — lacks the necessary graphics chip and can run neither his favorite video-editing software nor anything but a hobbled version of Vista. “I now have a $2,100 e-mail machine,” he says.”
“Mike” is Mike Nash, the Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management at Microsoft. The above quote is from an article in today’s New York Times.