Internal Microsoft Emails Warned Over Vista, Low-Cost Laptops

**Iria** · Apr 10, 2008, 10:28 AM

Microsoft's reprieve for Windows XP, at least for what Microsoft calls Ultra-low-cost PCs (ULCPCs), came as no surprise to most. ULCPCs are notebooks such as the Asus Eee PC or HP 2133 Mini-Note PC.

Shockingly (insert sarcasm here), and most likely, damagingly (at least in terms of the "Vista-Capable lawsuit" Microsoft is embroiled in), emails from that lawsuit show that Microsoft wasn't exactly in the dark about Windows Vista performance issues, especially as it related to these low-cost laptops.
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Source: Tech-Ex

IvanV · Apr 10, 2008, 06:27 PM

I really doubt that the tested specimen owes it's low score to it's OS, I'd rather say it's the architecturally obsolete, in-order C7 that's to blame. The laptop scored 801 in PCMark07, beating Everex CloudBook, another notebook based on C7, only with lower clock, by a nice margin and it also did really, really well compared to the other laptops from it's class in SuperPi, so I'd say this tells us a different story about Vista than the suers.