Watch your back, Monkey Boy. You may have messed with the wrong bunch of PC builders.
A court filing unsealed Thursday as part of a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft
The full text of the e-mail has not yet been released, but Hurd's complaints to Ballmer are the latest signs of escalating tensions between HP and Microsoft caused by the launch of Windows Vista in 2007.
The lawsuit accuses Microsoft of slapping labels on PCs that said the machines were Vista-capable when they didn't have the processing power needed to run some of the operating system's most touted features.
E-mails
released Nov. 14 as part of the case show Richard Walker, the head of
HP's PC business, hinting at the customer trouble to come in a Feb, 1,
2006, e-mail to Ballmer and other members of Microsoft's management
team.
I hope this incident isn't a foretaste of the relationship I will have with Microsoft going forward, but I can tell you that it's left a very bad taste," Walker wrote. "The decision you have made has taken away an investment we made consciously for competitive advantage knowing that some players would choose not to."
That e-mail
triggered panic at Microsoft. Jim Allchin, then co-president of
Microsoft's platforms and services division, quickly sent a follow-up
note to Ballmer. "I am beyond being upset here," he wrote.
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