Apple reduces iPod / iPhone build rates!! But increases iMac production

Although Apple has said that it is still on the road to ship 10 2008, as it looks that rumors about the scaled back production, after all true: Several analysts are now reports that the company pulled back iPod Touch, iPhone And MacBook production for Q1. Of course, Apple is known for its channel inventory rather reckless, so it is not known whether this is a permanent decline, or just a reaction to what some analysts are calling "overbuilding" in the 4th Quarter, but there is some good news there - Strong sales of the iMac have led to a projected 35 percent increase in production. You know, the last time the economy soured, Steve promised that Apple "innovation" of the downturn - would say that we have some new MacBook Pros would be a fine start this time around, eh?

Microsoft VP: "I personally got burnt" by Vista Capable stickers

The "Vista Capable" sticker consumers certainly caused a lot of confusion, and it looks like it also raised some senior Microsoft execs. According to an internal MS-E-mails introduced as evidence in the ongoing judicial proceedings on the programme, several MS-managers expressed concern that they were misleading people, with the VP of Product Management for Windows say: "I PERSONALLY burned. .. I now have an e-mail machine, $ 2100 "And Jim Allchin say MS had" really botched "program and that it" had to do a better job with our customers. "Of course, the main reason for the confusion The multiple editions of Windows Vista, with different capabilities depending on your hardware, but this is a subtle point, with a sticker - or, as a Microsoft employee acknowledged in an e-mail, "Even a piece of junk qualify "Vista Capable. That is a pretty damning stuff, but the case is not anywhere near resolution yet - the judge has not yet decided whether to certify as a class action, which, as it seems, depends on a technical reading of Microsoft was exactly what advertising Throughout the Vista Capable program. We know in 10 days if the judge has said that it will a decision - we would imagine that the plaintiffs' legal team has a lot more of these e-mails store and if this is the case.