Aug. 22, 2005
Gretchen Miller, director of mobile product marketing at Dell, warns Carl Sittig and Rick Thompson that the proposed dual logo program 'will create confusion for our customers, both corporate and consumer.' (pg. 26, pictured)
Oct. 11, 2005
Padmanand Warrier, e-mailing Rajesh Srinivasan and others, is concerned that in the midst of a planned campaign 'touting the benefits of _premium_ Vista,' customers will be buying logo'd PCs that 'will not even meet the requirements for running _standard_ Vista.' 'That's just bad,' Warrier comments. (pg. 146)
Nov. 3, 2005
Brad Goldberg confirms to Jim Hebert and others that, 'There is no marketing budget associated with this [Vista Capable] program.' It seems reasonable to wonder how Microsoft thought it was going to educate consumers about the limitations of Vista Capable-stamped PCs without spending any money to do so. (pg. 153-4)
